Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the film looks in on Manhattan's literati, proffering a view of life at the top that will be wonderfully satisfying to restless schoolgirls in Great Falls. Everyone is crude but beautiful, and Max Steiner's busy background music puts every known human emotion into italics. Champagne flows. Famous critics stagger to their feet at parties, uttering dire absurdities about "the prime young stag hunted to death by rich hunters." Youngblood is hounded to the bed of a sleek, wealthy matron (Genevieve Page). He goes on to acquire the Pulitzer Prize, his own publishing house, part...
Whitla said that a PRL of 6.0--a prediction of unsatisfactory performance--is generally the cut-off point for applicants, although exceptions are sometimes made, particularly in the case of foreign-born students or students coming from a disadvantaged background...
...neither by temperament, background nor age does Agostini count himself among pop artists. At 51, he can remember working for the WPA and showing on Manhattan's 10th Street when it was still the center of the avantgarde. Brought up as a poor Hell's Kitchen kid, he recalls selling his early drawings to the sisters at parochial school when he was eleven. His later friends were abstract expressionists of a generation older than pop: Kline, De Kooning and Marca-Relli. Pepperonis & Provolones. In his 30s and 40s Agostini began making commercial sculpture. He made plaster mannequins...
...fragments tossed out by teh meteor impacts that blasted the two craters, and since they lie on top of most other lunar features, they are listed among the youngest parts of the moonscape. But O'Keefe also found a conspicuous black mark showing starkly against the lighter background of one of Tycho's rays. The ray had not dusted the mark with light-colored material - circumstantial evidence that suggests the mark must be more recent than the meteor impact that formed Tycho's crater. Dr. O'Keefe noticed, too, that the mark is in line with...
...creatures of fiction. They keep popping in and out of it, sharing their secrets with the camera, affecting musical comedy poses, cracking movie "in" jokes, letting off steam, then back again to play the youthful games that seem so much nicer in the movies-all set to background music that rattles along in cheerful parody of several dozen of the earnest scores for vintage Hollywood spectaculars...