Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questions about nuclear arms policy and technology I had reservations about knocking on the door of a professor whom I had never met Nevertheless, I resolved to make that "cold call." I still wonder whether I would have made that decision had I known more about his impressive scientific background and political credentials...
Beissinger: Mr. Andropov is not someone who deviates tremendously in his background and his attitudes from what we've seen in the past. [But] I think Mr. Andropov is someone who would challenge the military, given the opportunity. Andropov's statements immediately upon assuming the post of General Secretary were very pro-military, basically saying he would maintain a high war preparedness...
...addition to the networks, many independent stations feature a grab-bag of holiday movies and theme shows, as well as some highly entertaining visual treats. In New York, for example, a local station broadcasts, throughout Christmas Eve, films of a burning wood fire with Christmas melodies as background music...
...Superstar an excellent evening's entertainment, despite production weaknesses glaring enough to sink most theatrical endeavors. Staged in the massive Kirkland House JCR. Superstar involves close to 30 actors in a perpetual whirlwind of motion, as well as an extremely competent 14-person orchestra thumping away madly in the background. The script contains not a single line of spoken dialogue, unless you count Pontius Pilate yelling. "Twenty-two! Twenty-three! Twenty-four!" while Roman guards put Jesus to the lash. The rest is music numbers of the sliding, dazzling quality that marks the composer's better-known Evita...
...power of such a book, missing in the film, may stem from each reader's opportunity to form his own image of the characters. In the animated version, Beagle's fantasy unicorn becomes a stereotypical white horse with a horn. And the voices of actors reading the lines, background theme music and songs only interfere with the delicate unfolding of the plot...