Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vicious glances could make even William F. Buckley cower in his chair. Mark Kessler inspires a chuckle for his performance as the lisping literary critic. The problem with most of the other actors is that they don't play up the viciousness of their roles--they fade into the background because they don't have enough witty one-liners...
...paper's goal is to make Jewish students aware of their background and culture without becoming separated from the rest of American culture, Schwartz said...
...borrow an exquisite polychrome Christ from Norway, where it had been made by a traveling English artist for a church in Bergen around 1230-45. Just as in the greatest monuments of English Gothic today -- the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral, say -- one sees only the bare background of a decorative and sculptural scheme whose figural richness can never be restored or even reimagined, so the remains of medieval sculpture that have been assembled for "The Age of Chivalry" cannot really evoke the culture whose mutilated envoys they...
...help Joe Biden. It remains to be seen how much damage the marijuana issue will do to presidential candidates like Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt. But there is no doubt what would happen to the latest Supreme Court nominee if a joint or two turned up in his background. He'd be finished...
Anthony Kennedy is a case- by- case conservative loath to proclaim any sweeping constitutional doctrine -- and that, along with his straight- arrow background, is why he may win Senate confirmation. -- Congress' s Iran- contra report will scorch the President for failing to uphold the law. -- Mentally disturbed Joyce Brown wins the right to remain homeless in New York...