Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much for them to be advanced of and that they fear the voters may just figure out that this November (or two years hence). What has become perhaps the most distinctive trademark of this Administration is the "senior official who would only talk to the press on a "background" basis, with the condition that his name not be used." This mysterious individual appeared at least twice recently first to brief reporters on the White House incredible certification that El Salvador's rulers have made "progress" on human rights: and then to present an equally preposterous rosy economic forecast, which...
Celebrity Voices seeks to avoid lawsuits from subjects of the imitations by never actually using their names on the tapes. The voices, though, are easily recognizable. The world-weary Bogart, for example, brings back memories of Casablanca. While the song As Time Goes By plays softly in the background, the sound-alike says: "Leave your name and number. If you don't, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life...
...basic cable service to advance that future. They thronged to his kickoff party at the NCTA gathering and were plainly pleased as the whippet-like (6 ft. 1 in., 175 lb.) Turner windmilled through the crowd greeting many by name, his raspy drawl audible from yards away despite the background music...
...upbeat, bouncy theme song plays in the background as a mellifluous voice announces the cast spilling out the front door: "Leave It to Beaver, starring Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow . .. and Jerry Mathers as the Beaver...
...caricature, simultaneously obvious and humorous, has never had a major role in Allen's films. Self-deprecatory references to his own Brooklyn Jewish background and jabs at rich WASPs have always been in Allen's repertoire. But a living, breathing one-liner presented as a major character seems a new creation; even Annie Hall was more real...