Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Polk said the photographers were looking for "a picturesque Harvard scene"--possibly Harvard Yard--as background...
...spoof shots from Death pacing the beach to the omnipresent British boys' schoolroom. And it enables crazed animator Terry Gilliam to create some of the wackiest sequences he has ever penned, galaxies swoop in and out of file cabinets and the sun rapidly mitotes into a fetus while, for background music, a typical Python "French" accent promises to "explain it all for you tonight." So broad are the cinemographic possibilities that the movie's structure, crisp at first, ends up as a loose collection of scattershot satires...
...computer training has stood her in good stead at this eastern university, which dwarfs Whitman. Linguistics is becoming a science in the traditional sense, relying on quantitative data to prove its contentions, according to Bergvall "You cannot do linguistics today without some computer background," she says, adding that her own training of four years ago is already becoming dated. The program she is using to analyze intonation could not have been created five years ago, she adds...
...language much differently from men, citing their experience at Harvard. After a brief, informal and sometimes halting discussion, Vicky focuses on the issue of how conversations progress, and cites studies showing that men interrupt far more than women do. She contrasts the world of Harvard with her own background in rural Montana. By the end of the hour, the women have been gently hooked...
Other students manage a stock portfolio worth more than about $100,000 to gain experience with investments, said senior Allan Ballweg, who worked with the fund last year. He added that the program provided invaluable background in managing "real money...