Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...example, a “foolishly optimistic effort to bring ‘enlightened’ democracy to a nation in darkness” but completely overlooks the country’s ties to Middle Eastern oil. For someone who takes painstaking steps to convey her well-read background and advocates greater intellectual discourse within the nation, Jacoby is woefully ignorant about political science. She omits arguments that seem intrinsic to her claims, most notably Tocqueville’s “tragedy of the commons” and Burke’s trustee-versus-delegate debate.The final few chapters...
...Marital sleuths typically rely on old-fashioned legwork to verify suitors and their families' social and financial background - tailing targets around the clock for a week or so, and conducting clandestine inquiries with neighbors, friends and co-workers to unearth any possible dirt. "That's the only way you can really discover the character of a person, which is what most of our clients want," says Singh. "And character is simply decided by whether someone has had a previous sexual relationship...
...read “in perpetuity through the end of time” is representative of a character that is shallow, but delightfully so. Keiller’s performance is masterful; her character is in total control of her huge catalogue of barbs and imposing enough to silence the background music herself without saying a word.Other highlights include enlightened discussions on Breakfast at Tiffany’s (“The movie, not the novella”), guidelines for coming out of the closet as a public figure (“Are you British? Are you knighted...
...randomness like Missy whooping on an obese man in Dance Dance Revolution. What we don’t find in the video is the vibrant aesthetic stimulation that has become a staple for Missy Elliott. In becoming three-dimensional, the video is actually less innovative, with a simple white background setting off most of the first half and a glorified Sean Paul style in the second half. In fact, Elliott’s past videos—with the extending necks of “Get Ur Freak On” and camera curvature of “The Rain...
...could win the White House, appealing like no other candidate to national security hawks, tax cutting conservatives, and evangelical voters, many of whom were skeptical of his Mormon religion. At other points, when the economy more recently became a central concern of voters, he focused more on his business background. For such a usually well-polished corporate leader, Romney also managed to make quite a few memorable gaffes in his efforts to prove his conservative credentials, such as when he called for doubling the number of terror detainees at Guantanamo...