Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GEORGE W. BUSH signed a law ending Texas' concealed-weapons ban. He supports background checks at gun shows but hasn't pushed for them in Texas
...effect fools the senses. In one sequence, a virtual dancer moves among a series of multicolored, vertical poles that seem to extend toward the back of the stage. The figure looks tiny as it steps into the background, huge in the foreground. Once you're accustomed to this exaggerated virtual space, the digitized dancers disappear, leaving only the virtual poles. Then live dancers appear onstage and traverse the same space. "You stop thinking of space as being one set construction, but rather as a myriad of possibilities," says Eshkar...
Most of the candidates have three or four full-time press secretaries, in addition to a communications director. Steve Forbes has a travelling press secretary, who, as he tells me, "only speaks on background." That means that Forbes pays thousands of dollars to a press secretary whose name will never appear in public...
Someone could make a good movie about a tortured fellow who kills lovers in parked cars on the advice of a talking dog. But in Summer of Sam, a kind of Bronx Boogie Nights, Spike Lee has made a very bad movie with David Berkowitz deep in the background. It's mainly about whether a Bronx hairdresser would rat on his best friend if he didn't get fellated by his wife. How do you say "Huh?" in Italian...
...McCain's background may also help him to capitalize on the issue of campaign finance reform...