Word: backgrounder
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...mind begins to spread its wings, there’s no stopping curiosity” and “the trouble I find is the trouble finds me.” Johnson’s music is laidback and lulling, falling nicely into the background. Don’t be fooled by the “Show me the monkey” advertisements—this film is strictly juvenile. And it’s almost certainly better that way. The next CGI-ed film is just around the corner, but how often do the youngest children get a movie...
...Renesselear Polytecnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.; second, the indefinable reinventions of the international group, Spurse Collective, who will install an impromptu eatery in Cambridge, with food and supplies culled from local residents and business.An exhibit at the Cambridge City Hall Annex on Broadway will accompany each project, giving more background to the transient works.According to Lillian Hsu, director of public art at the Cambridge Arts Council, this round-robin idea appealed to New England curators on several levels. Conceptually, erecting the steel structure in subsequent cities seemed like an exciting, open-ended exploration of how artists create public...
...what the average listener is used to. It sounds exotic, which could win her some new fans, but it turned off this one. Despite all these gripes, it is important to remember that none of the album is bad given the right setting: it would make damn good background music. Even given the many complaints that could be lodged against it, the album’s low-key beauty could be ripe for rediscovery when I’m feeling longer on attention span. Until then, Cat Power isn’t nearly powerful enough. —Staff Writer...
...both very disciplined and very thorough, and it was no doubt thanks to this extended research that Stella was able to arrive at the elegant simplicity of the black paintings. They represent the same combination of stripes and rectangles reduced to a bare minimum; the stripes and the background are created simultaneously through the application of only one color, and the rectangular element becomes the canvas itself and so does not need to be painted...
...following: “We should all donate a dollar and we could raise millions of dollars to hire an assassin to kill the President and replace him with a monkey.” Martinez further alleges that the agent asked him about his medical records, his family background, and his propensity to assassinate the leader of the free world.“Honestly, I think it’s hilarious and blown completely out of proportion,” says Martinez. “If I was serious, I would feel much more strongly. Instead it was a waste...