Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white-haired man who has farmed all of his adult life, tried to retain his jolly disposition. His son, who is tall, thin and bright, hovered in the background, staring glassy-eyed at what was happening. He watched a rotary hoe go for $950 (it would cost $3,500 new) and two irrigation motors for $155 (they would cost $1,000 if new); a small cultivator, bought ten years ago for $500, went for $2. Danny's wife Frieda, 33, stayed away from the auction. "She cried," Danny admitted. "She cried...
...selecting the visiting professors, Div School officials hope to provide background in Judaism for ministerial students and encourage dialogue between the religions...
...waiting for 'the moment of inspiration.' I design clothes that can be produced at a certain cost, that can be sold and can be worn. The beginning of a new collection is a drama. But eventually, without being theatrical, without drinking or smoking or listening to background music, I just begin to design on a sheet of white paper...
...history of European art. There was landscape before Ruisdael and landscape after him; his vision exerted a subtle, intrusive pressure on Dutch, French and English painters well into the 19th century. The idea that landscape did not have to be "moralized" as allegory or treated merely as a background to royal portraits or Crucifixions-that it could be seen and loved for its own sake, as the repository of unburnished natural truth-was widely confirmed by Ruisdael's work...
...triumph of Hill Street Blues has been to make the passive viewer pay attention-to the interwoven plots, the overlapping dialogue, the busy background of bodies and emotion. Police Squad!, a deftly dippy sitcom now midway through a six-week run, demands the same attention. Blink and you will miss the Tower of Pisa looming outside a window in "a neighborhood called Little Italy." Glance at the evening paper and you will not see a young couple walk through a "Japanese garden" filled with blank-faced nisei standing in planters. Raid the fridge and you will miss the visit Sergeant...