Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Including: The Universe Around Us, The Mysterious Universe, The Stars in Their Courses, The New Background of Science, Through Space and Time...
...Month Club's dual selection for September (with Animal Farm-TIME, Feb. 4). Described by the publishers as a novel, The Sudden Guest is in fact little more than an elaborately contrived but not penetrating character study, with the East Coast hurricanes of 1938 and 1944 as background. The hurricanes blow an assortment of people into Miss Leckton's little world of servants, silverware and unearned income. She resents the intrusion, especially if the intruders happen to be Jews...
...Movie background music has come a long way since the days when a loud chord went with a slammed door, a descending scale with a man falling downstairs. Whether it has gone far enough to be music in its own right, few music critics are willing to assert. But last week two scores by Hollywood's No. 1 sound-track composer, Miklos Rozsa, were fast-moving items. His Spellbound Concerto, adapted from his Oscar-winning music for Spellbound, had sold 100,000 sets at $4 each; his Lost Weekend music was one of Victor's top ten "semi...
...worst, background music is a cheap way of getting or underscoring an emotional effect, full of Wagner's tritest tricks. At its best, says Rozsa, it can help to "complete a psychological effect." Spellbound and The Lost Weekend, full of mental quirks and jangled nerves, were right up his Tin Pan alley. To express one hero's amnesia and the other's lust for alcohol, Rozsa used an unearthly contralto wail, produced electronically by a radio-like instrument called the theremin (TIME, April 11, 1932). The theremin, almost never used in a Hollywood film score before...
...wastes the hard-working actors, famed Director Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven, Farewell to Arms), the Technicolor, the dressy sets. Only item worth the expense: the brilliant piano playing on the sound track by Artur Rubinstein, who was paid $85,000-a whopping price, even in Hollywood, for a musical background...