Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from who knows where, and backs it with electronically altered vocals and a variety of funk sounds, which recall everything from Caribbean metal drums to a fart. Spaceman Jonzun, himself, is credited with the following: lead vocals, computer programming, electro drums, space bass, space-vocals, sound effects, synthesized keyboards, background vocals, string and brass synthesizers. And the three other band members do stuff as well...
...much less traditionally than the rest of the play. Lit with harsh, direct white light rather than colored floodlighting, the scene takes on an cerie dimension. Gone is the division into rooms as space loses its objective reality. The players occupy the entire floor. Droning synthesizer music in the background completes the setting for the final confrontations and decisions. O'Neill's themes, death and guilt, engulf the whole stage...
Maurizio Manzini, manager of American Express in Rome, sees the emergence of a "new kind of American in Europe." He explains, "Today's tourists have more interests and a different cultural background from the elderly, usually wealthy client who in past years wanted everything organized down to the last, tiniest detail. They like to wander and find out things on their...
...fatness of feeling" and recoiled from sex: "Coitus is the punishment for the happiness of being together." He could write only about what he knew, and what he knew were his dreams. "My talent for portraying my inner life," he noted, "has thrust all other matters into the background...
John Opel is a lot more than just a corporate man, but he guards his privacy as closely as his company protects its secrets. He bridles at revealing much about his background or family, plainly believing that such matters are his own business. He fought with the U.S. Army on Okinawa in World War II and was wounded in the foot by a piece of shrapnel. He and his wife Carole have three daughters and two sons. He drives himself to work in a six-year-old car whose make he will not divulge and lives in a house...