Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked as if Elephant, which had already cost Paramount more than $1,000,000, had turned out to be a gigantic white elephant. If Actress Leigh's scenes were dropped, what was left? Just barely enough, Producer Irving Asher decided, to provide background for a second shooting of the film on a Hollywood sound stage. Elizabeth Taylor was borrowed from M-G-M to take Vivien's place, and Elephant Walk, new version, was in the cans by mid-May. Total cost: close...
Where the seams show, however, the quilt is crazy indeed. When Elizabeth Taylor and Dana Andrews take a canter, for example, the background rushes by as if they were flat-racing. And at several points there are sharp cuts in the film, one of them so drastic that the audience almost loses track of the story. This is the more important because the story, based on a novel by Robert Standish, is more complex and subtle than most of those told on the screen...
...with a good job in a Manhattan publisher's office and the love of a fine girl, Tom Osborne learned a truth that has plagued many a small-towner: a young fellow may walk out on home, family and background, but that does not necessarily get them out of his system...
...protest against the possible new order of things at the appointment of Hastie at PBH has been mentioned before. The fear exemplified in this controversy that religion was to be forced upon students was intensified when students learned of the religious background of Pusey, the new president...
...other hand, religion is most important part of the nation's history, its background, and its present couture. Though the church may have become somewhat emasculated in many respect its membership is growing constantly...