Word: backgrounders
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...camera focuses so tightly on Jones and Thorogood that the female actresses fade into the background. Monet Mazur (“Monster-in-Law”) as Anita Pallenberg, mistress of many band members, and Novotny both take decent turns, but neither endows her leggy blonde character with much individuality...
...your sense of wonder in this seminar that he holds fortnightly. You reserve in advance, and your session, which costs $48, includes five cocktails (for the champagne-based cocktail evening, it costs $60). In the dim light, some people smoke cigars, and '30s swing music plays softly in the background in this intimate, '70s-style lounge. Weber's lesson will focus on cocktails with a brandy base, so the syllabus includes the brandy alexander, sidecar, brandy stinger, pisco sour and brandy flip. History is an essential part of the syllabus. As Weber mixes a brandy alexander - a smooth drink made...
...McCain-Kennedy Bill crucially offers a path to citizenship for those who have been in the U.S. for more than two years, while still deterring future would-be illegals. Illegal immigrants would have to get a temporary work visa, pay a $2,000 fine, pay back taxes, undergo a background check, learn English, and work for several more years before applying for citizenship. We support this compromise approach, which both acknowledges the illegality of the action and also allows for a pragmatic end to the situation and eventual citizenship. Without the goal of citizenship, temporary work visas would create...
Although the event was focused on a Christian perspective, AACF staff worker B. Francis Chen ’00 said the topic resonates with all Harvard students regardless of their religious background...
...Humala's seemingly contradictory faces reflect in many ways his colorful, complicated background, and they are the reason many of his critics on both the left and the right still don't entirely trust him. Unlike other like-minded leftist politicians in South America, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and recently elected Evo Morales in Bolivia, Humala doesn't come from humble beginnings. His father, who is the founder of an ultranationalist, neo-Marxist movement that preaches the superiority of indigenous Indian Peruvians over the country's descendants of the Spanish and promotes violence against those lighter-skinned elite, raised...