Word: backgrounder
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...fronds reveal the internal structure to be hollow. The scene is similarly hollow, empty, deserted. There are two more trees, in at the fore, with one sized more like a shrub, but the viewer can just glimpse an island’s coast, and the open sea, in the background. The contrast between dark and light is artful and the image clear. The white of the sky is pure...
...viewer and poses questions as well. His lips and his chin and his clenched right fist are indeterminate and open to interpretation. His eyes are clear and asymmetrical, but it is unclear whether they are haunted, surprised or amused. Context beyond the suggestion of a nursing home in the background might have helped to narrow down these emotional options; however, the inability to categorize the man’s expression so quickly prevents the viewer from dismissing the man himself as a kind of archetype. The sensibility of this photograph reveals a depth and potential to Dichtel?...
...infectious drum beat is more than just background music; it intensifies as the onstage treachery grows. Its presence is highly appropriate, given the bit of dialogue that tells us how the players “make war against themselves.” Comparing the concept of tribal war with the political factions and split loyalties within government works well for Herrera, as does the culture of death represented by the hanging skulls of the set. And the pyramid structure of the set, which functions as the site of the murders, suggests the history of a society filled with such bloody...
Carpenter, who will deliver the graduate oration, said that her speech attempts to “marry” her background as a book editor with her years...
...exhumation created a macabre scene. Matching numbers with gravesites, clusters of 10 to 20 relatives and friends each watched a male member of the family dig. Women, covered in black chadors, shrieked in he background...