Word: backgrounder
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...chronologically and were selected by Shorter, Zawinul, and Columbia/Legacy producer Bob Belden. The discs are remarkable not only for their breadth but also for their portrayal of a band constantly evolving over a 15-year period. The collection begins with looser sounding tracks, consisting mostly of an electronic-fusion background to an amazing Wayne Shorter on saxophone, while later tracks find a more evolved, fully fused sound that is only really fully realized with the inclusion of Pastorius on bass...
...harsh lights of a theatre under construction, with saws and staple-guns buzzing in the background and sawdust covering the floor, Ur seemed fully at home. “We’re building a forced-perspective stage,” he says enthusiastically of the set, gesturing to a geometrically confusing structure rising behind...
...Over time, I've spent my time on those things the President wants me to spend time on, or has asked me to. I spend a lot of time on national security matters, which is an interest given my background as Secretary of Defense, on the Intelligence Committee and so forth. And that's clearly where he's spent a lot of his time, as well...
...been doing for a number of years. I was a conscientious objector in the Vietnam War, and over the years since then, I’ve found myself rethinking my position many times, often as a result of my interactions with students, who either come from a military background and have helped me to understand the complexity of the professional military today, or who are humanitarians seeking to use force for a variety of different humanitarian purposes around the world, whether in Darfur or Bosnia, or wherever. All of that interaction in a classroom led me to rethink the relationship...
Ganeshananthan, whose second book is still in progress, also said that her journalistic background helped her in her first foray into fiction...