Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Leo Lee, the purpose of sophomore tutorial is to give concentrators "a broad background in East Asia...
...students say it is challenging to establish a "broad background" for so vast a region, and some say they don't think the department meets this task very well...
...because so few students have the necessary background in East Asian Studies, many concentrators contend that the sophomore tutorial must necessarily be intense...
...band's origins in Chicago account for the influence of Smashing Pumpkins, whose influence can be heard in tracks like "I'll Wait," "Down Baby" and "Not Here," with their drifting background guitarwork and almost schizoprenic vocals...
Innovative background lighting also adds much to the show, although the dim lighting on the stage itself leaves something to be desired when half of the cast is perpetually in shadows. But on the whole, lighting designer Steven Rosen, whose recent credits include stints at Harvard's own Hasty Pudding Theater, provides striking images which remain fixed in the mind...