Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phone caller says a bomb will explode somewhere in the school at 10 a.m. It is now 9:30. The person calling sounded like a teenage male, and it sounded as if two other teens were laughing in the background. The caller hung up before giving any other information. There is a trace on the call, and police are investigating. This investigation will take more than half an hour...
...Jesus Christ Superstar was set to be (and is) one of the major productions of the fall theater lineup--quite a goal for someone who had never broken a leg on a Harvard stage. Fowler has an extensive background in theater, but this is his first "official" show at Harvard. He's a singer at heart, and spent his freshman and sophomore years living it up with the Harvard Krokodiloes. The Kroks may not have been a seminary, but they sound divine (ahem) and no doubt prepared Jeff for Superstardom. His background as a vocalist also allows him to approach...
Burns showed six clips totaling under a fourth of the film, adding historical background and commentary about the women's suffrage movement and its two pivotal leaders, Stanton and Anthony. The three-hour documentary, fourth in series of five biographical films, will be shown...
...night to find his father passed out, drunk, on the snow of their front yard, his arms spread out as if he were crucified. At the end of the book, Morris charts Reagan's trip to Bergen-Belsen, and the photographs of the white corpses shown upon a black background in cruciform position that he saw at the entrance to the field...
...spawned an entire world where violence is not the answer (because there are no questions to answer) but the only thing to do. Granted, Marla and Jack end the movie silhouetted hand-in-hand like any good love story, but the fact is they are silhouettes against a background of exploding skyscrapers...