Word: backgrounder
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...Greek chorus that comments on Sidney’s dark journey. As they caution and cajole Sidney, they encircle him in a perfect compliment to Bob Crowley’s brilliant set design. The ensemble becomes the living, breathing manifestation of the phantasmagoric city that is suspended in the background beneath an otherworldly...
Gabriele has a hefty background in sound design and an approach to theater that he calls “more aesthetic and visually conscious than many, particularly undergraduate directors,” Gabriele’s skills are suited to craft theater experiences that utilize the stage resources to their fullest and should, therefore, be quite at home in the expansive and technically well-stocked Mainstage space...
...blue ribbon commission investigating the FBI's failures in the case of FBI agent-turned-spy Robert Hanssen reported Thursday that routine background checks over more than two decades turned up numerous tip-offs that Hanssen was spending much more money that he was making...
...commission, chaired by former FBI and CIA director William Webster, reports the FBI never followed up on these clues with a systematic and thorough probe of Hanssen's finances, even though individual background investigators pointed out inconsistencies and anomalies they had observed in his case...
...instance, Hanssen made expensive improvements to his house, paying many of the bills in cash. At one point, a background investigator interviewed a family friend who guessed that Hanssen or his wife Bonnie may have inherited money - but nobody in the FBI followed up to verify the supposed bequest. "They never pursued things that didn't make any sense," says a senior official familiar with the Webster commission report." The comments just went into the personnel file...