Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dean Brelis, who had seen Mrs. Gandhi only two weeks earlier, instantly began gearing up for his own extensive reporting duties. He assigned Reporter K.K. Sharma to gather a profile of new Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and asked Bureau Manager Deepak Puri and Researcher Arti Ahluwalia to pull together background material on Mrs. Gandhi. Brelis also obtained, exclusively for TIME, the last known photos of Mrs. Gandhi, taken just one day before her death by a member of an Irish television team filming a Peter Ustinov interview with the Prime Minister...
...I.R.A. bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton [WORLD, Oct. 22] makes me aware once again that many of our American citizens are financing this madness in spite of the efforts of the Irish and British governments to stop it. I also criticize our politicians of Irish background who have made no effort to influence these misguided supporters to stop underwriting murder...
...across a bare stage in various pairs and groups. This comical celebration of machodom neatly balanced the somber 'Creole Giselle,' reminding us of the perversely ambiguous history of the American south. The Brazilian music--rhythmic drums, cymbals and xylophones and the set's rapidly changing colors provided a lively background for the jazzy, athletic dance...
...sheer cleverness of the entire three-level set rising from under a bare white cover, suggesting a reborn Phoenix rising from the embers of the protagonist's imagination. Less successful, however, are the rather eerie and harsh sounding original score and the flashing colored lights in the background, tending to be more an annoying distraction than a subtle evocation of mood...
...centuries the Roman Catholic Mass, the church's central act of worship, was celebrated by a priest reciting Latin prayers, facing the altar as the laity behind him provided a devout but silent background. In 1963 the Second Vatican Council, seeking to give the laity a greater role in the liturgy, authorized a sweeping reform of worship that included prayers in the vernacular and a rite in which the priest faced his congregation. For many conservatives, most notably the dissident French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the new Mass, even though it can be said in Latin, became a rallying point...