Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading last week's field, John Patterson drew heavily on the crusading father-and-son background, even more heavily on his record as an attorney general who would enforce to the letter Alabama's harsh segregationist laws. He won 160,000 votes to 134,000 for his nearest rival, Circuit Judge George Wallace, who had promised to jail any FBI man found snooping around his jurisdiction to investigate denial of Negro voting rights. Patterson is strongly favored in his runoff with Wallace next June, but either way, Alabama can be sure of having just the sort of segregationist...
Nonetheless, it it a good movie. Good because Gielgud as Cassius turns in a tremendous performance, because Mason as Brutus beginning with the assasination--is excellent. On these two performances, a few good camera angles, and fine musical background, Julius Caesar's success and entertainment value depend...
Manusevitch plays second violin in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and has had an extensive musical background. However, as an undergraduate, he concentrated in the Slavic Department...
...U.S.S.R., in the land of that knock, was to be another sort of day. From the marble tomb of Lenin and Stalin, in the shadow of the Kremlin walls, traditionally comes a dictator's propaganda of arms and marching men-with a rattle of rockets in the background...
...dream-gay, relaxed, with beautiful legs. (But he was convinced that her eyes turned inwards and her dog's eyes outwards.) "I flirted with her a long time, and we were in love," he says impishly, and just as impishly he put Leda and the Swan in the background. "He did sort of make love to me under the canvas," says Adele. "He would look at me and purr. But I was madly in love with Prince George [later the Duke of Kent]. And I didn't have cross-eyes...