Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps most typical of the performance was the delightful background music. Had the production been done with Elizabethan overtones, the unique rhythms might have seemed even more macabre than Barabas' horrible, murdering vengeance. As it is, the music jumps and thumps in fanciful accompaniment to the play. Following each murder after the intermission, the music descends a scale with loud bangs, as if Charlie Chaplin's body is bouncing down a stair-case. Marlowe may not have intended the effect, but it makes for wonderful entertainment...
...hard for participants to see the stay-out in any other perspective, since the response was so emotional that even the dearest political issues were forced into the background. The implications and repercussions of the issues were farthest from peoples' minds...
...Congratulations to Boris Chaliapin for a thoroughly delightful cover picture of Foreign Minister Couve de Murville. It was gratifying to note that the Virginia Museum's Le Lorgneur by Jean-Antoine Watteau (see cut) was the basis for his background cartoon...
...Karl, president of Milwaukee's Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. (nicknamed "Magic"), sketched in the background of the now familiar Magic stock deals. Baker, he said, had tumbled to the potential of the infant home-mortgage insurance company as early as mid-1959. Naturally, he wanted in on a deal with so much profit potential. Though the company's stock had not yet been registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Karl sold Baker 250 shares for $28,750; their market value later soared to about $400,000. Admittedly, said Karl, the legality of the early sale might...
Trillin contrasts their relative innocence with the experience of James Meredith, for by some Negroes, Hamilton and Charlayne would be considered almost white. Unlike Meredith, they did not have to overcome the disadvantages of a sharecropper background; coming from a middle class community in Atlanta, they were more concerned with a normal education than with simply breaking down the system. Almost casually, both Negroes responded to the suggestion of a local leader that they become intergrationists...