Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gephardt swiftly retaliated. His ads were minimalist: all words, white on a black background, ending with a small picture of Gephardt's face. The ad fired from both barrels, accusing Simon of distorting Gephardt's record on Social Security and describing Michael Dukakis as "one of the biggest tax raisers in ^ Massachusetts history." Between Saturday and Tuesday, Gephardt's slide stopped...
...rubbish: Mick, for example, ordering a fruit plate from room service, bitching about the heat in a station wagon, or mumbling nonsense while slipping into his psychedelic stage costume. A significant part of the soundtrack is just ambient sound, whether it be a radio or TV playing in the background or just someone mumbling behind the camera. Frank entirely avoids the obviously glamorous option of playing loud Stones music through the entire film, which would effectively have turned it into a rock video...
...tiny devices, which fit completely inside the President's ear canals, contain sophisticated circuitry that allows Reagan to control their volume and eliminate telephone feedback by pressing buttons on the remote unit. The $1,900 mini-aids have an improved "noise suppression" feature that can filter out annoying background distractions -- like shouted questions from the press corps...
...influential San Francisco family, and he attended schools (Hotchkiss, Yale) where mixing with the scions of wealth was hard to avoid. After choosing journalism as his life's work, he discovered that financiers, corporate chiefs and politicians were happy to let him trail along in their retinues. Lapham's background and his access to the mighty have given him a privileged perch from which to view the past few decades of U.S. history. He believes he has seen something new, and he is not happy about it: "I think it fair to say that the current ardor of the American...
Thesiger's greatest adventures came after the war in the vast deserts of southern Arabia, where for five years he traveled with the Bedouin. They receive his highest praise: "I knew I could not match them in physical endurance, but, with my family background, Eton, Oxford, the Sudan Political Service, I did perhaps think I would match them in civilized behaviour." That they do not make men like Thesiger anymore is obvious. That men like Thesiger were always as rare as water beds in the Sahara is gloriously evident in his proud and courtly autobiography...