Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, brief as it was, would not be brief enough now for television. Oh, the cameras would be there, but they would focus first on the man from ABC-CBS-NBC describing the scene and recalling the battle. In the background Lincoln would be seen speaking but would not be heard saying, "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here." TV's formula these days is words 100 words from the reporter, and a "sound bite" of 15 or 20 words from the speaker. At long last Lincoln's turn...
...number of times in the bureau's files on the Hoffa case, "but that none of these suggested any criminality or organized-crime associations." Webster has since been unable to find these references and, chides the committee, "has no idea where he got that information. The background investigation of a Cabinet nominee demands greater care than this...
Wholly unaware of this background, editors of the London Sunday Times bought the remaining four volumes from the Panvinis in 1968. After paying about $71,400 for them, the newspaper learned of the hoax and aborted publication...
...mottled past, that the efforts of Ross this year to establish performance/installation art and video art displays have made such a splash in Boston art circles. Originally a video artist himself. Ross knows such well-known performance artists as Laurie Anderson. He has brought a totally different kind of background to his job at the ICA, and this first year has been one of new directions for the museum...
...have ranged from arguments against affirmative action and numerical quotas for minorities to support for the Defunis and Bakke cases--court cases which in essence argued that persons with the highest scores on admissions and other standardized tests should be given first preference, irrespective of other factors such as background, personality, leadership ability, manners, hygiene, etc. As long as these individuals and special interest groups felt they had a monopoly on test scores, they pushed a "scores alone" policy, all other factors be damned. The rash adoption of this policy by all too eager educational institutions (and the vicious media...