Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with a painting supposedly of a nude woman descending a staircase, which had no woman visible, just strange, machine-like, abstract forms. All three artists did parody paintings, mocking taste. Ray painted in a bright, cheerfully kitsch style recalling décor in the background of middle-class apartments in old Hollywood movies. Picabia painted textured abstracts that had nothing but a few primitive dots on them resembling enlarged points of light. (In 1950, the art critic for TIME said they had "all the monotony and none of the scientific interest" of astronomical photos.) And he painted gaudy, figurative scenes...
...being so far away from home has its own small, practical problems. “Sometimes you really miss mom’s cooking,” says Dlamini. Luckily, thanks to several sizeable ethnic populations in the Boston area, it’s possible for students of many backgrounds to find a decent restaurant or grocery store which meets their needs. But some international students don’t have this luxury. Often, it’s more than a matter of just finding a good cook of your homeland’s cuisine—some...
...illegal immigrants commit 21% of all crime in the United States, costing the country more than $84 billion. Rasmusen contends the distinction is important because immigrants with a green card or U.S. citizenship have already jumped through several legal hoops to live and work in the U.S., including a background check into any prior criminal record back home. "Legal immigrants are by definition unusually law-abiding," Rasmusen wrote last June. But Professor Daniel Mears, a Florida State University criminologist, argues that such reasoning can also be turned on its head. "If someone is here illegally," Mears asks, "why would they...
...time adding the insult usually reserved for locker rooms and school yards. Though the incident took only seconds, the exchange was immortalized on camera and uploaded to the web site of French daily Le Parisien, where it had been viewed nearly a million times by Monday morning. Against a background of sliding poll numbers, the video turned the verbal swipe into a political event...
...Kotb does not cringe from answering any questions asked by viewers, because she believes that she has the scientific background to discuss any sexual issue. The gratification in her work, she says, comes from making couples happier by helping resolve their marital sex problems. But she refuses to deal with cases where a husband abuses his wife but expects her to respond to his sexual whims by claiming that Islam requires her obedience. "I ask patients like that to leave and never come back, because they are an insult to Islam and the Prophet," she says...