Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francine and Mickey's courtship depend too predictably on '60s pop songs for period flavor. But most of the details ring true, from the woefully inadequate bromides offered by elders ("a woman's got to take the bitter with the sweet, you know") to the constant background din created by the children, to the way Mickey childishly brandishes his fists at his cowering wife, a neighborhood bully grown to frightening stature. The Burning Bed makes its case, and a lot more. It is an eloquent and gripping drama, and the best TV movie of the year...
Borowitz said the idea for the show came when executive producers of "Dreams" John Peters and Peter Guber, who produced the hit movie "Flash Dance," told him they wanted a situation comedy with a blue-collar background and a lot of music...
...contrast, Carper relishes his non-U public-school background. A Viet Nam veteran, he served three terms as state treasurer before unseating Republican Congressman Tom Evans in 1982. He tools across the state in his beat-up Plymouth Horizon, listening to classical music, and boasts that he has now shaken every hand in Delaware. Carper professes not to mind that Du Pont plans to spend $300,000 more than he, insisting, "I'm used to being outspent. I overcome it by an intense, person-to-person grass-roots campaign." Carper, who supported Gold water in 1964, is a fiscal...
...unlikely to quell the controversy, but as a work of self-exploration it may help both sides to understand the subject. In Finding the Center, Naipaul explains himself and sad his method through two very different essays. The first, "Prologue to an Autobiography," is an account of Naipaul's background in Trinidad as the son and grandson of Indian immigrants. Growing up in an Indian household in a British colony just off the coast of a Spanish country, it is easy to see where Naipaul developed his interest in the overlay of different lands and different ways of seeing things...
...choice is not surprising Much of the story's appeal lies in a kind of begrudging admiration by the public toward these men of aristocratic background and Oxbridge education who, even as they rose through the ranks of national service, held fast to the radical beliefs they had gained as youths...