Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first track on the album, and it epitomizes the problems that plague Clapton's newest release. "Pretending" leads off with a clever little piano introduction which segues into a brief Clapton guitar riff. But, as in much of Clapton's '80s releases, his guitar is kept firmly in the background, behind synthesized horns and a synth organ, dominated by a programmed drum kit which keeps an unnecessarily imposing beat...
...Background...
...Kraus says he never considered seeking a statewide office until his friends urged him to apply his background to an office riddled with problems...
...hilarity and rage, Giulio's Olympians cavort and cuckold one another across the walls to the accompaniment of all manner of phallic puns. When sword-brandishing Mars is seen pursuing Adonis, whom he has just caught in flagrante with his wife Venus, even the antique statues in the background display their truncated arms as a sign of impending castration...
...Viet Nam memorial," her approach to her work is intrinsically the same as it has always been. When she looks at a site, she says, she considers more than the mere physicality of it. She considers the "emotional and psychological context" of the place -- the people, the background, the history. Then there is the form itself. "Tactility," she says suddenly, with such emphasis that it suggests the essence of her perceptions. "Immediate sensations of material. Things are minimal in my vocabulary, so that means everything counts. Light counts. Sound counts. Height differences count...