Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Wajda denies making Danton in response to the events in Poland, it is impossible to forget his political background and decline to read between the frames. When Danton declaims. "Without bread there is no justice, peace or law," or when he tells Robespierre. "Come back to earth I have the only power the street," how can one not hear the echo of Lach Walesa? Like Walesa, Danton is an orator a reversed leader a man too busy for effete manners a man of the people...
Clark supporters argue that he's an able administrator who masters situations quickly--confirmation hearings not-withstanding, one assumes. Clark himself has said, "I've never felt intimidated by a lack of background." It's easy for him to say, but environmentalists may not feel so courageous...
...book is divided into two parts, the first written by Province, the second compiled by him. In the first half, the author discusses the more famous incidents in Patton's career, reconstructing, for example, the speech Patton gave on the eve of D-Day, and giving the background to "The Slapping Incidents." One regrets the absence of footnotes or dates, which turns the fascinating quotes given in the book into the very questions the book is supposed to resolve. The lack of scholarly notation is especially felt in the chapter called "The Philosophy," which consists entirely of quotes culled from...
...admired Theodore H. White's frankness and vividness in describing the events in China both present and past [Sept. 26]. I am of Taiwanese background and was reared on propaganda against China. After I came to the U.S., I perceived the difference between reality and hyperbole. Nevertheless, the pride of Taiwan equals the pride of mainland China. Taiwan should be left alone...
Until a Los Angeles-based executive-search firm fingered Ueberroth five years ago as the "one good man" the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games had been seeking, his Olympic background consisted of an unsuccessful tryout for the U.S. water polo team in 1956 (Melbourne). During the Montreal Games in 1976, nearly cornered into observing his own family decree against summer television, Ueberroth had viewed the competition nightly with the sound turned down low in the darkened room of an elderly neighbor lady who was trying to sleep. He was such an unlikely proprietor of the Games that...