Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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High suspense it isn't--despite the melodramatic (and usually inappropriate) bursts of background music. You may even find that you don't particularly care if the man sleeping with Bertrande is an impostor or the real McCoy. But what this slowly paced film lacks in top-flight mystery is made up for by its compelling authenticity; in fact, director Daniel Vigne recreates 16th-century village life in painstaking detail. The film spills over with highly convincing silhouettes of village routines--shaking the chaff from the grain in woven baskets, donning animal costumes for a religious festival, and the ubiquitous...
...almost, but not quite, a perfect performance. As the early morning sun glinted off its wings, Challenger came swooping out of the skies like a giant California condor and touched softly down right on the runway's center line. "Great-looking landing," said Mission Control against a background of cheers and applause. About the only thing that marred the conclusion of the seventh shuttle mission, highlighted by the presence of the first American woman in space, was some damage to the shuttle's brakes and protective tiles. Yet Challenger's flight ended on a slightly disappointing note...
...classic definition of an epidemic is an outbreak of disease affecting 1% of the population. But most doctors now agree on a newer criterion and declare an epidemic whenever the incidence of a disease rises above its normal "background level," or rate of natural occurrence...
Then again "Rolling! background action! Action...
...Background...OK, background action." The extras march by the gate peeking at the camera trying to look casual, "Action...