Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What a Fellowship Hour," another minister preaches a religion engaged in life rather than in the electronic propagation of plastic virtue. The service is outdoors, in a Chicago park. In the background, a chain-link fence rises as though to shield the playground and the worshippers from the graffiti scrawled on the buildings across the street. As the preacher hums and sways, a police car cruises slowly through the camera's field of view, like a large blue and white fish swimming in a bowl. Most of the crowd is submerged in the music...
...food to his congregation. He clambers down from the wooden platform to talk to two elderly women. Richard Daley, the late mayor's son, says a few words but looks uncomfortable speaking on this side of the fence and disappears soon after. The minister is grateful anyway. In the background, the police car is parked, the tennis courts are full, and the people are enjoying a potluck dinner...
...ANOTHER CHANNEL, a blue cross rises against a carefully arranged background of metal streaks meant to represent light. Three adorable blond children clad in Lacoste shirts stand in front of it. The program is ending, and after a short pitch for contributions, it is back to the Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Tournament...
...turn away from the undirected insanity of the first two albums to a sort of directed insanity, governed by David Byrne, the group's new producer and ployrhythm maestro of Talking Heads fame. Byrne seems to have effected a tilt by the band to the funk side of its background. "Mesopotamia" doesn't give up the fun of "The B-52's" and "Wild Planet". It merely is a rechanneling of the 52's focus from outrageous melodies to a soul-influenced rhythm...
...support, Lakian cites Ronald Reagan. Without endorsing any specific policies. Lakian notes that Reagan ran a state efficiently without any of the government background everyone said was so necessary. But to contradict Lakian's argument, one could begin with the same example. There is now almost completely bipartisan sentiment that Reagan's policies and his politics are flawed. While 67 percent of a governor's time may be allocated to management--duties he could realistically transfer to an experienced executive aide--the other third is the most significant. The imagination required to coordinate a general policy and vision, the necessary...