Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chocolate, or even motherhood. Another good chunk of the credit goes to the three principals, all of whom appear friendly and accessible on the screen. I would even have given some of the credit to Edwards had I not stuck around to see the movie's credits. The background to the credits is a child's drawing of a daddy with his kids. As the credits are rolling, more and more kids keep popping up in the drawing. The last kid to appear is black...
Sciff Professor of Investment Banking Samuel L. Hayes III said the B-School is "trying to broaden the net" for people with distinguished business background, adding that Pearson was "one of [the B-School's] best catches...
Paradoxically, the care with which Lean lets such intricately wrought correspondences speak for themselves creates a danger that the partially attentive may again mistake him for what he is not: an empty pictorialist. Or, because his characters wear costumes and move against an authentic historical background, in classically composed scenes that do not obviously assert his personality or linger over his cleverness, some people may persist in seeing him as an old-fashioned moviemaker...
...thought to be spawning grounds for new planets. The fact that astronomers have been unable to see extrasolar planets is hardly surprising, given their relative small size and lack of luminosity. By comparison, hosts of stars, with the light generated by their nuclear fires, are clearly visible against the background of the heavens...
Mitsumasa Anno has been called the Escher of Japan because of his ability to trick the eye and educate the mind. In Anno's Flea Market (Philomel; $11.95), two old peasants wheel a cart across a medieval square. Horseless carriages suddenly appear in the background. A stagecoach is on display, and African explorers have arrived with a cache of ivory tusks. In Anno's crowded canvas, allusions are everywhere: the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, the paintings of Monet, the films of Rene Clair reach across the years. With his panoramic, limitless cast, this flea market constantly renews...