Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Benston and cast do a fine job in portraying the hardships of Black soldiers on the stage. The frequent use of a single white spot on a stark black background successfully heightens the conflict between the Blacks and whites on stage...
...another group of pictures in Booth's collection feature child dirtbike racers. Children often as young as eight years old are pictured holding trophies with their proud parents in the background...
...beautiful, strong-minded mother whom he once saw naked, or, as he put it, matrem nudam. But he was also a Jew in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at a time of ferment in the arts and sciences. Gay's Freud emerges slowly but heroically from this background as an ambitious outsider driven by what the author calls a "greed for knowledge" and a scarcely suppressed desire to conquer the exclusive Gentile world...
...from Shepherd's law firm in St. Louis, contended that Shepherd had encouraged her to take the money. The office of Attorney General Edwin Meese dismissed that allegation as "nonsense," and neither of Sinner's charges against Shepherd has been substantiated. However, the initial media look into Shepherd's background established that he is a member of an all-male St. Louis club and another club that is all white. Though Shepherd said he is determined to remain in contention, his troubles are an additional embarrassment for Meese, who needs more setbacks about as much as Custer needed more Indians...
...Rolls Royce ad features the famous insignia and hood ornament at the front of the gleaming silver car set against a black background. Against this stark but regal scene stands a quote from Henry James: "Live all you can; it's a mistake...