Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King uses a freeze-frame technique to good effect in numbers like "Another Hundred People": the action alternates between Robert talking to different girlfriends as Marta (Jennifer Susan Burton), invisible, listens in; and Marta singing a commentary while the other two freeze in the background...
...love of Jessica, the spirited daughter of wealthy rancher Harrison (Kirk Douglas). On the way he encounters a gang of drunken cattlehands who try first to humiliate, then to kill, him; a legendary horseman who rides whistling through mountain-passes as coyotes howl in the background; and Spur (also Kirk Douglas), a grizzled prospector with a pegleg, an eye for women and a proverbial "heart of gold...
California judge and loyal Reagan staffman; Director of Central Intelligence William Casey is a seasoned businessman and an energetic Republican campaigner; Caspar Weinberger does not have the background in defense policy to match his zealous commitment to the goal of rearming America (which is one reason why he has virtually turned over the Pentagon's arms-control portfolio to Perle); if confirmed, Kenneth Adelman, the Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations, will be the least qualified director in the 21-year history of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He is a political scientist whose main prior experience...
...attractive, boyish-looking man, with a beaked nose, a nasal-baritone voice, and graying, sandy hair. He has an easy, likable manner and a quick wit he often turns on himself. His self-deprecation springs from his country roots in Minnesota. His father was a Methodist minister of Norwegian background who spoke with both a strong accent and a stutter. To augment his $1,800-a-year church salary, he sold corn and cabbages out of his garden. His mother Claribel helped out by giving piano lessons. Fritz, as he was called, had his own chores, like gathering corncobs...
Against this background of increasingly brazen Soviet exploits, the abrupt expulsions seemed long overdue to French counterintelligence services. Former Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin revealed that in 1971, when Georges Pompidou was President, he had proposed the expulsion of 150 Soviet and East European agents, but that it was decided not to jeopardize relations with the Soviets. Under Giscard, the argument prevailed that it is better to keep spies who are already identified and known rather than throw them out and have to start anew ferreting out replacements. Accordingly, over the past 20 years France, publicly at least, had expelled only...