Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand, he tries to explain how meaningful his music was in extracting him from his humble background: "The band began the song and Pete sang venomously. The words celebrated men being real men; real men didn't need to display their toughness but needed to be able to know compassion and self-sacrifice...
Peking Bureau Chief Richard Hornik found particularly valuable his five years of experience as a journalist in the Soviet bloc, including an assignment as TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief (1981-83). Says Hornik: "That background was really useful as I tried to discern how far its economic reforms have taken China from orthodox Marxism-Leninism." Stationed in Peking since April, Hornik has traveled widely: to Shanghai twice, to Canton and to Shenzhen, one of China's foreign trade and export zones. Perhaps his most absorbing trip was to the huge heartland province of Sichuan. Says Hornik: "It gave...
...threatened, even shot at, as the paper goes after the story. Louise Day Hicks, the city council member who became the earth mother of the antibusing forces, stands by helplessly as her movement turns savage. Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, Archbishop of Boston, perceived as an outsider because of his Portuguese background, inherits the role of the late beloved Richard Cardinal Cushing, who had a gift for defusing conflict. Uncomfortably, Medeiros defends desegregation, aware that his stand is alienating many conservative Roman Catholics...
...show's directors are encouraged to look for creative ways to use music. "What I wanted to do was not to use music as just background but as psychological subtext, if you will," says Thomas Carter, who directed the pilot episode. "What I felt was happening to Crockett at one point was he had lost touch with reality. His marriage had fallen apart, and he had discovered that his ex-partner was leaking information to the bad guys. So I said, 'I want to do a sequence with Crockett and Tubbs in a car, lay some music over...
Wives of previous Soviet leaders have stayed so far in the background that Western observers were unsure whether Andropov's wife was still alive until she turned up at his funeral. Gorbachev's stylish wife Raisa, 52, who is a teacher of Marxist philosophy at Moscow University, is often at his side in public appearances, which is apparently a problem for Soviet editors. They run pictures in which she is standing beside Gorbachev, but they do not identify her in captions. The Gorbachevs are frequently accompanied by Daughter Irina, a physician in her late 20s, and Granddaughter Oksana, 5, giving...