Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much about this film is admirably straight and simple. The cast, including a number of nonprofessionals picked up on the spot, is generally restrained and persuasive. The picture's background-the shattered corpse of Germany-is appalling...
When a friend asked her recently to identify the birdlike demon entitled Mrs. Partridge, Carrington said nothing to indicate that Mrs. Partridge might, under different circumstances, have been herself. But her answer showed that the artist had forgotten neither her British background nor her Irish wit. The lady in question, she replied, "lived highly respected, and is still remembered as the 'better half of poor Colonel Partridge. When she died the neighbors sighed, 'She was fey but she was county...
...Ambassador called Communism "a new and loathsome virus, bent upon the destruction of the freedom and dignity of man," and warned the young men present that "the silhouette of your future stands out sharply against a sombre and terrible background...
Gain Rich Background...
Valpey has already made a hit with some football players by his pledge of a hands-off policy regarding grid candidates who also like to play baseball. "That's their own individual problem," he says, "although it may mean starting fall training either with a background, or completely unindoctrinated...