Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tones according to the effects of light, heat, humidity and surrounding noises. The result sounds rather like a Balinese gamelan: a succession of groans, bongings, sighs and muted tinkles. "This piece of sculpture," says Schoffer, "aside from its purely visual role, becomes the source of an emission of sonorous background directed towards the city...
...staff went to a private showing at Washington's Warner Theater. Dutifully, a Secret Service agent-tall at that-sat in front of the President, who later moved to get a better view. Ike talked with Cinerama co-owner Lowell Thomas, lustily sang out along with the background choir-America the Beautiful and Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...Their background was strikingly typical of the 21. In her book 21 Stayed, Reporter Virginia Pasley reveals that 18 grew up in poverty, 16 came from small towns or rural communities, 17 did not finish high school, 20 were Regular Army volunteers, 16 had an average IQ or less, 15 were 21 or younger when captured, 11 lost their fathers when very young...
...were deeply conscious of the need for a new mission for France; both were deeply disillusioned by the powerlessness of the French parliamentarianism which had supinely handed over power to a Pétain, and was now supine before the challenge of liberation. While De Gaulle brooded in the background, Malraux was the most eloquent voice of the Gaullist R.P.F...
...Tartini, then gradually, smoothly warm up to entrancing modernity. All of the movements seem to weave Tartini's melodies serenely for a while, then get involved in the implications of their own patterns; at other times the old tunes appear in a kind of bas-relief against a background of alien dissonance. A fascinating composition...