Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wheeled into the driveway just past the intersection of Bob Hope Drive and Frank Sinatra Drive, beyond the 30-ft-tall reproduction Mayan column and within view of the three flags: Old Glory, the Union Jack and Annenberg's personal banner, a yellow Mayan rune against a white background. Annenberg, 74, spent 5½ years as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Sunnylands is a modernist San Simeon on 208 acres. Built in 1964 at a cost of $5 million, the mansion alone covers nearly an acre. Inside is a major collection of impressionist (Renoir, Monet...
Jewett's half-hour appearance--marking the first time a College official has attended a regular council meeting--was intended to provide council members with background information to "get them thinking about the issues," council Chairman Sesha Pratap '84 said after the meeting...
...That is fine. In fact, for Director Scola's purposes it is the perfect finish to a masterly film, at once superbly intelligent and strangely poignant. He employed the same ironic device in A Special Day (1977), in which Mussolini held a giant rally for Hitler in the background, while Mastroianni and Sophia Loren coped with the quotidian in the foreground. But La Nuit de Varennes is a much richer film. In Day the protagonists virtually ignored the great events moving around them. In Varennes they are relentlessly articulate in expressing views about them, ranging from right to left...
Theater is a doubt-edged sword-the success of a production hinges as much on preparation as on creative intuition. Harvard theater tends to be long on creativity, but, all too often, short on background. In fact, the two should be intimately correlated, and informed creativity usually brings the beat results. Simply liking a script does not necessarily justify directing...
...students took a closer look at Sellars' work, however, they would find a depth and background not always evident in his mod, appealing exteriors. Student theater can only benefit from the guiding influence of such a solid grounding. The significance of this intellectual connection to the creative art has been somewhat displaced in the heady pursuit of greater experimental heights...