Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clarifying thought, but mere stenography. It is debased even further by the pseudo-objective postures teachers frequently require their students to adopt--"This essay would like to analyze..." --as well as the sometimes well-meant but usually misshapen advice to "place the writer's thinking in the background," a suggestion students often disastrously take to heart...
...that committee room was rampant. Chairman Charles Percy of Illinois leaned over the huge horseshoe desk when Shultz had gone and the committee room was clearing and said there had been nothing quite like Shultz in the past 20 years. The thing that most impressed Percy was "his marvelous background in economics." Shultz, a Ph.D. economist, is the first of that breed to preside over America's diplomacy. Economics, Percy believes, lies at the heart of modern statecraft. "And Shultz is not a turf fighter," concluded Percy, referring to Haig's terminal impulse to battle over every perk...
Even though he had no background in finance, he was appointed secretary of the Vatican Bank in 1968 and became its president three years later. Said he at the time: "I have no banking experience, but I think I was chosen because of the organizational ability I showed when it was needed during the Pope's travels." Last October, Marcinkus was named to an additional job as chief administrator of Vatican City. He has been considered a sure bet to be elevated to Cardinal later this year...
...provide an enjoyable evening of theater." While many works of art meet Laguna's requirements in terms of style and content, they prove technically impossible to reproduce. For example, Eytchison has found that Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings have too much distance between figures in foreground and background for realistic reproduction: "In order to do a cancan scene and have real women recreating the dancers, the absinthe drinker in the foreground would have to be eight feet tall." The posers, who are picked from more than 1,000 applicants at open casting calls, are chosen not only...
...book, Irving explained the strange woman and her ideas in great detail. Her evolution from rebellious Wellesley student into even more rebellious nurse and ultimately into the leader of a militant women's movement seems plausible. But the movie bypasses Jenny's younger days altogether, and the lack of background creates confusion. This is the one fundamental problem with the film version of Garp: In the generally successful effort to wrestle Irving's sprawling work into a story digestible in one sitting, Hill and Tesich have left out crucial scenes and subplots which support the main story and underscore...