Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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White bulbs on a hot baby-blue background: the message board in the St. Louis Trans World Dome scrolls WELCOME TO THE EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION WITH HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II. The Dome's 70,000 capacity is stretched to 100,000. Betty and Ed, after hours on a chartered yellow school bus and in line for metal detectors, have drawn spectacular second-row seats: they can almost touch the stream of priests flowing across the floor toward the great papal seal. A jumbo screen shows the approaching Popemobile, just half an hour away. She twists a silver ring again...
Last night, the House of Blues traded its usual bluegrass and jazz fare for something a bit more synthetic. Wearing shiny plastic pants and using dubbed background singers, Tatyana M. Ali '02 presented a hip-hop alternative to the House's traditional Delta blues for a crowd of over 200 fans...
Jamie L. Jones '00 says that the real world has always lurked in the background of her Harvard life...
...think of who will be fun to hang out with and who has some background in theater," Cassidy said...
...president of the International Women's Forum, was the first woman to run for governor of Arizona in 1994. Barrett, who has also served on various trade and commerce committees, said she will organize her study group so it "will be drawing on both politics and business... because my background is in both politics andbusiness...