Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the ART was billing Endgame as a play about nuclear war survivors. They were not. The point is when you stage the play in a set depicting a deserted, gutted subway, the original hint about the possible fate of the characters becomes, for many,the single intended background. One of the important uncertainties about Endgame is forgotten or lost. A play which might hav emade people think about their own existence is removed from shame; it becomes, as it impressed a box office worker, a play about nuclear war survivors...
Baker's switch to Treasury is much less risky and seems destined to have less impact on the Reagan presidency than Regan's move to the White House. The Texan arrives with scarcely any background in his new field--he was an Under Secretary of Commerce in the Ford Administration--but his confirmation ) hearings should prove a breeze. He relies heavily on his astute aide, Darman, who will be the second-ranking officer at Treasury. While deficit reduction remains the top priority on the agenda of both the Administration and Congress, Baker sees genuine historical opportunity in responding...
Brokaw was far from alone in treating Geneva as a stage set. CBS's Dan Rather also anchored his show outdoors, and his colleague Bill Moyers recorded commentary while walking, vapor-breathed, past city sights. ABC Anchor Peter Jennings used a Soviet news briefing as dramatic background noise...
...been honing since he became co-class agent for the Harvard College fund in 1953. "I guess I was just the sucker who got tapped," says Stone, the resident fundraising whiz of the seven-man governing Corporation. "I'm the only [Corporation member] with a really strong business background, and that's why I'm interested in the money matters like the campaign and the endowment...
...Administration recognized, however, that its position could be tough to sell to American allies, some of whom fear that Star Wars could accelerate the arms race, and even to some segments of U.S. public opinion. Hence the "background" briefings, which are a standard technique for explaining a policy that the Government is not willing to proclaim formally. Who is doing the talking is easy to guess, however, especially when the briefings are widely publicized in advance, as McFarlane's was. Certainly Moscow should have no trouble figuring it out; the briefings are open to the foreign press, including the Soviets...