Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several are foreigners, and Stein, who brought them together, provides some background: Julio Santo Domingo is a Colombian "whose father runs Avianca Airlines," Giora Rachminov is an Israeli "who does diamonds," and Mimmo Ferretti is the son of a Milanese clothing manufacturer. Ferretti is a last-minute replacement for Baron Roger de Cabrol, who is sick. "We wanted to call the band Euro-trash," Stein says, "but, instead, they're called the Greencards." He is grinning: a green card is the Government document issued to resident aliens...
...choice to turn the company's fortunes around. He founded his own consulting firm, Lewis & Associates, in 1975 and helped guide the reorganization of the ailing Reading Railroad into the Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail). In addition to his experience in capital ways, Lewis' value lies in his background as a corporate troubleshooter. Says Anthony Hoffman, a vice president of the New York City brokerage firm A.G. Becker: "His political reputation and skills will be an added asset when it comes to the hunt for new cable franchises, but what is really being relied on here is his business...
...unfold the extent of that terror up to Sophie's final and tragic "choice," so that the viewer's reactions parallel Stingo's own. Longer than the conventional flashback, these sequences demonstrate Pakula's scrupulous care in reproducing Styron's tone. An actual concentration camp in Yugoslavia forms the background, and Meryl Streep as Sophie appears with near-shaven head, made up to look perceptibly younger and gabbling fluently in German and Polish...
...live in a sadly senescent twilight, paying little attention to each other on the eve of their 40th anniversary. And Richard has to suffer sleeping by himself on his honeymoon, not to mention Paula's mother's well-meaning attempt to serve him grits in homage to his Southern background. The fledgling marriage, nurtured in the hedonistic sunlight of California, begins to freeze in the Catholic gloom of Buffalo. By the time they get to Richard's parents' in Virginia, it looks as if it will never bloom...
With the aid of Nester Almendros' evocative cinematography, Benton creates a highly ominous atmosphere which make Rice's fascination with Brooke all the more credible. Many scenes are filmed in obscure light, with large shadows looming in the background. The effect is claustrophobic; the characters seem almost swallowed up by their surroundings. In one scene, as Brooke confesses a secret from her past, her face is framed by absolute blackness, the only object in view, so that the audience is drawn to her as inexorably as Rice...