Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyway, the game started, and I noticed that only one WCHC announcer had arrived--the "color man" was missing. This one guy was having a devil of a time by himself, spouting play-by-play a mile a minute at the same time he tried to give some background on the game...
...represented by a feisty old Jewish judge, an Irish criminal lawyer and an Irish investigator for the D.A.'s office. Wolfe pays conditional tribute to what he identifies as Celtic machismo, a refusal to back off from confrontations, and passes on the street theory that regardless of race or background, all members of the New York City police department eventually become Irish...
...fair was a chance for offices that usually remain in the background to explain their work to the University employees and students who browsed along tables in Memorial Hall. The occasional event, which was first held in 1978, is sponsored by the Harvard Managers Exchange (HME), an organization of mid-level Harvard administrators...
Sofovna creates Anna as a somewhat batty, very neurotic woman repressed by her repulsive, narcissistic husband. It is hard to believe, with the background Mikhalkov gives her, that Romano is her first flirt with adultery, or the romantic notion that she learned to read Italian from songs. Still, Sofovna is so convincing, because of the odd twitches with which she endows her character, that the final plot twist is hardly surprising...
...late '70s his reliefs had stretched the conventions of relief without really departing from them: they had a flat solid background plane from which the bright templates sprouted as figures on a ground, and however "wild" the color seemed, it was always anchored within the coordinates of collage or, at least, given the enormous size of pieces like Inaccessible Island rail, 1976, of screw-bolt-and-bracketage. Stella's 3-D paintings all descend from constructivism, and one soon realizes that they mark the end of its tradition with a barrage of fireworks: there is something funereal as well...