Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...easily comprehend them in small clusters and then, if they wish, to step back and make larger associations among works from various groupings. The exhibit’s didactic intent is evident. The wall tags are incredibly informative and have thorough explanations, taking time to explain not only the background history of a specific art movement with which an artist is associated, but to offer deep analysis and interpretation of the work itself. In the show’s first gallery, four works that one may never have imagined would occupy the same wall combine to produce a progression...
...drones. They point out that enlisted Army personnel fly that service's unmanned aircraft, and that enlisted airmen are known to spend a lot of time playing video games - a key skill in this line of work. "It does not take a commissioned officer with a university and leadership background, and years of training flying fighters and such, to fly something like a flight simulator," Air Force Cadet Michael Warzinski said in a message on an official Air Force website reacting to Schwartz's initiative. To which General Schwartz, who is said to be open to the idea, might...
...diplomat. But like a parade of world leaders before him, he is discovering that the appeal of foreign affairs prevails over domestic politics. Making compromises with other countries brings a satisfaction that is hard to secure in dealings with more fractious national actors, who rarely fade graciously into the background...
...Plans by Italy's center-right government to fingerprint Roma residents in a mandatory census have also drawn fire, despite the fact that the E.U. ruled earlier this month that the scheme was legal because it was not aimed at tracking people by ethnic background, but rather fingerprinting those who had no other way of being identified...
...political event, he memorably vowed that "the next Republican that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary down their throat." That spirit, along with his Scranton roots, could attract him more sympathy from fellow Catholics when criticized by church leaders. "His blue-collar background may inoculate him in ways that it couldn't for John Kerry," says Bill Roth, president of the Catholic Democrats...