Word: backgrounders
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...uphill chore to socialize them, to get them to come into more relaxed contact with humans. They probably come from a feral cat background, and were not touched or socialized as babies. You're working against their genetic and early childhood experience. But you can get them out of it with an understanding of what makes a cat tick, which is not to go to them and not to try to urge, coax or demand anything of them. You have to let them come to you and ask for it. That of course takes a lot of patience...
...When I asked Eric afterwards about the religious background that enabled him to engage in a fairly articulate debate about the merits of Repent America’s assertions, he explained that he grew up wanting to be a Catholic priest but began studying other religions, from paganism and masonry to the “sex mysteries of Isis and alchemies of Horus.” “What is your religion now?” I asked, tentatively. “I’m a Thelemite,” Eric said. Of course he was. Apparently, there...
Describing Romney as an “unusual” candidate, Porter mentioned Romney’s nontraditional background in management consulting and private equity as one of the reasons why he has elected to take a more public role in the upcoming campaign...
Students wearing campaign pins milled about, eating desserts as “Revolution” by the Beatles played in the background...
...middle of very sporadic and unclear movements and diction. At one moment, Dr. Nikki Nom was sitting down patiently to begin the next poem; in the next, she had twisted herself on the chair, hugging it for dear life; in yet another, she twirled on stage to a background of classical music before running from one side of the stage to the other. The eccentric definitely outweighed the conventional in “Namely, Muscles,” for better or worse. Porter took the figurative to be the literal as she interpreted her own words through the actions they...