Word: backgrounder
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...we’ve been here before / and you will know we’ve found this world because everyone is overjoyed,” Hart proclaims, “and everything that you say is magic.” The cellos return as the bass fades into the background, and the melody gives way to an onslaught of feedback and ominous marching drums. The song ends with a few seconds of rapid blasts of static, alternating between the left and right channels. In a mere two and a half minutes, Hart has managed to showcase his labyrinthine inventiveness...
...Many analysts believe that the store-operations background of new CEO Mike Duke will keep investors quite happy. Though the recession finally caught up to Walmart last quarter, when the company reported a 1.2% drop in U.S. same-store sales, Walmart was a consistent winner during the worst days of the financial crisis, as frugal consumers traded down. While most retailers are shutting down stores, Walmart has opened 52 Supercenters since Feb. 1. Joseph Feldman, retail analyst at Telsey Advisory Group, estimates that each store costs Walmart between $25 and $30 million. In order to continue the momentum that...
Harvard University must constantly work to maintain and enhance the diversity of its faculty, staff, and students, while also meeting the often unique needs of every member of our community, regardless of background. As the Co-Chair of the Harvard Association of Black Faculty, Administrators and Fellows, and the FAS Diversity Committee, Bob has helped lead the effort to make Harvard's campus more diverse and welcoming for all members of our community. As the first Assistant Dean for Diversity Relations and Communications, he will continue that work by coordinating and spearheading diversity efforts across the many different areas...
Behrens, who died Aug. 18 at 72, began her career later than most. After abandoning a background in law to pursue music, she made her professional debut in 1971, with just four years of vocal training and without a single acting class under her belt; her first director had advised her against taking drama lessons, correctly predicting that her raw instincts onstage would become one of her greatest strengths...
Already unconventional with her outspokenness, Miyuki Hatoyama can claim a background uncommon for most Japanese women: she was born abroad and has lived overseas for more than 10 years in her adulthood, she has had more than one career, and she is in her second marriage. Born in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, she returned when she was one year old and grew up in Kobe. By 18, under the name Miyuki Waka, she was acting with the all-female Takarazuka Theater troupe, a traditional Japanese revue with a style somewhere between a glitzy Las Vegas spectacle and a Pyongyang parade...