Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ruth Homond, whose names appear on these pages from time to time, do their usually adequate job. And for purely local interest-besides some trim chorines who can't get telephones either-is Joe Battaglia '25, lisping an occasional word but more often playing a very neat brothel-piano background...
...Feather's just weren't enough of a catalyst for King Louie. The other side, featuring the Armstrong trumpet, is a little better although the arrangement and the theme with which Mr. Feather saw fit to provide the musicians would have been more in place on a score of background music for one of Walt Disney's short animated cartoons...
...bystander in the background was, at worst, only a jackass...
Perhaps the best indication that the bomb had lost nothing of its political force came from Russia. Wrote Pravda: "In New York one may buy atomic ties, in restaurants they serve atomic cocktails, and on variety stages there are atomic blondes. . . . Against such a background . . . the results of the tests were more modest than . . . expected. [But the test confirmed] that the atomic bomb possesses enormous destructive power." Pravda stuck to its story that the U.S. was plotting atomic war: "[The test] basically undermined faith in the seriousness of U.S. talks of atomic disarmament...
...lank, soft-spoken Californian named Truman Bailey could take the commission's bows. Back in 1942 he had found that the only decent Peruvian artifacts were buried in museums. Most stores sold shoddy, cast silverware and tritely patterned blankets. Bailey, who had acquired a ripe background digging the best teakwood and tapa cloth out of Java and Oceania, knew exactly what to do: hit out for the sources of pre-Columbian handicrafts and discover the lost techniques...