Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...frustrating. Someone felt the need to include “Risky and Pretty,” the album’s 45-second interlude, as a purely instrumental track with more of the same boring sounds, adding another useless track to the rest of the indistinguishable mess. As background music, “Hush” can be tolerable, even more-so when Chikudate stays quiet or knocks down her vocals a couple octaves, but as rock music the album can’t hold one’s attention. Asobi Seksu fails to take a step forward with their...
...when she is on-screen. Whether she is asking to be gagged, sucking Steve Carell’s toe, or baring it all in “Vaginatown,” Carla Gallo is doing the only thing on-screen she ever wants to do: act. And her Ivy background will always be a “badge of honor,” allowing her to be “the oddly funny, and intelligent, porn actress,” with definite emphasis on “intelligent.” —Columnist Andrew F. Nunnelly...
...labels seem like product placements; each placard also includes a thumbnail of the logo of the company or institution to which the individual belongs. Because the relationship between the subject and the setting of the photo is exceedingly apparent—for example, a doctor placed against a background of pill containers—there is hardly any room for imagination or analysis on the part of the viewer. While it may have been Vanderwarker’s intent to create a scrapbook of his “heroes,” the lack of creativity and innovation...
...that kind of stuff, it is neither here nor there,” he said. “It’s about what you bring to the table—the knowledge and background you have...
...videos, and “BurrellTime” iPhone application that allows his fans to follow his life in real-time. “I’m building my social media ecosystem one peg at a time,” he said. As an entrepreneur with an entertainment background, Burrell said that advertising was instrumental in highlighting artistic talent. “At the end of the day, there are only so many notes, so many rhymes, so many keys on the keyboard,” he said. “The next thing is: who is the best...