Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prepare clerks for such questions, a strong background in religion is encouraged...
...have students who are very keen, and whohave quite a different background. Some areconcentrating in a science subject, such asPhysics, and are energetically doing early Irishliterature," he said...
...pieces, including first editions of Phyllis Wheatley's poetry and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as some fascinating daguerreotypes of African slaves. These artifacts, though historically relevant, relate only vaguely to Lewis' life. To be fair, historians know very little about the sculptor's background. But "Images and Identities" could improve by delving a little deeper into its central subject rather than focusing on the realities of all women or of all African-Americans...
...background are still more bubbling controversies over public money. Investigators are trying to find out what happened to funds missing from a now defunct tourism organization headed by Peter Mokaba, a prominent A.N.C. Member of Parliament. (Mokaba has not been accused of any wrongdoing.) And as much as $40 million in foreign donations may be missing from an association the A.N.C. set up to help former political prisoners. Some of these problems may have been caused simply by poor bookkeeping or inexperienced administrators, but South Africans are still concerned that stories of corruption will jeopardize investment...
Edward Ruscha's "Sweets, Meets, Sheets" (1975), presented as a sleek Madison Avenue advertising image, pokes fun at the commercialization of sex in selling products. The vertical composition of Hershey's Kisses, beef flank and packaged bedsheets on a red satin background demeans the conspicuous consumption of flesh, advertising and materialistic goods...