Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While artfully setting up such comic relief and the mysteries to follow, Symons provides panoramic background. The question of Irish Home Rule charges the atmosphere. Prime Minister William Gladstone tries vainly to keep Parliament in session until it wears down and disposes of the Irish problem. Meanwhile, militant Irish congregate in London to plot bombings and other extralegal redresses. A delegation of three calls on Ross; people in his circle begin wondering where the young M.P.'s loyalties lie. Symons also conducts a guided tour of London's fin de siècle bohemia, where the names conjured...
...leave doing research after his second year. "I didn't see the extra year as an advantage when I was choosing schools." But he adds, "I have a strong interest in research, and the strength of the Harvard program is that you get the strong medical background--I didn't want to be a general dentist...
Being in good running shape is one of the keys to Rittenburg's success. His half-mile background and gritty determination and endurance make the final running event one of his best...
...scenes at all. Picrre (Sandor Soth), a sort of Jimmy Dean rebel, seizes the microphone during a Party leader's speech at the school and shouts "Long live the idiots!" Later, Pierre leads a race through the halls, ripping down photographs from the walls, "Jailhouse Rock" playing in the background. Just before running into the totalitarian Vice Headmaster, he throws himself through a closed window...
...reggae influence, the group proves its versatility with a sorrowful song which mourns, "No chicken today," The protagonist awakes to this dreadful state, accompanied by the best horse, dog and chicken pounds civilized man has yet produced. Young laments, "All my chickens, they all run away" and the background vocals swell in a dirge of sympathy. The hero returns to a dinner of pork and beans--as obvious symbol of the heartbreaking compromises of modern life...