Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...films, evocation is not quite autobiography. The events in Edna Spalding's life, for instance, may be based on what happened to his great-grandmother, but her character contains aspects of his mother, his wife and, as he has carefully pointed out, some of Sally Field's background. The same is true of Glover's Moze, who developed out of a black man who worked for Benton's family, but whose magnetic presence is a tribute to the performer. Similarly, Malkovich's blind boarder, imposed on Edna's household by the smarmy banker...
Against the background of these events, I have decided to write an open letter on the subject of free speech and its application to a university community. Some readers may question the need for such a letter. After all, almost everyone understands the importance of free speech under our Bill of Rights, and the few who deny its importance will not be persuaded by anything that I might write...
With this background, I will comment on several issues of varying degrees of difficulty. In doing so, I will not pretend to answer all the questions and problems that could arise involving free speech. So much turns on the particular facts of each situation and the situations are so numerous and hard to predict that no one could aspire to present a comprehensive treatment of the subject. Instead, I have tried to choose a sample of questions growing out of the recent incidents at Harvard and other campuses in the hope of clearing up some of the confusion that...
...issue that still dogs the Corporation is the question of representation. All of the current members come from the traditional Corporation background: wealthy, successful, middle-aged white males, and many critics continue to await the first woman or minority member...
Judge Robert Takasugi added to the jurors' skepticism when in a final instruction he told them to look carefully at Hoffman's testimony. "The judge told us to weigh his background," said |one juror. "I did, and I discarded a lot." Add to this a stumbling performance by the Government's own agents, one of whom admitted destroying or altering some of his notes on the case, and the outcome was not surprising. De Lorean was also helped by his clean record. Most jurors concluded that the automaker had been lured by Hoffman into a crime...