Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Larry King Live, wondered if relentless interrogation along personal lines would "make politics like a circus." Emphasized Biden, whose strong family life has been a political asset for years: "I don't have anything to worry about in the sense that there is a culpable act in my background or that I have a promiscuous life- style...
What, however, has this to do with art? The sprawling, sometimes rambling narrative indulges in an uncomfortable amount of kitchen psychoanalysis ("The only thing that can explain this man, with his chain smoking, pills, liquor, insomnia, and need for crowds, is incredible pain") in arguing that Bernstein's background has forged the schizoid musician, from slick tunesmith to leonine conductor, that he has become. In Peyser's view -- formed with the partial cooperation of Bernstein, who gave her permission to use some personal letters -- the works of the artist cannot be understood without taking into account the character...
...development," comments Stephen Novick, a production director at Grey Advertising, "and a very, very powerful tool." Others express some doubts. John Doig, a creative director at Manhattan's Ogilvy & Mather, remembers the days of anti-Viet Nam demonstrations with "bloody police truncheons coming down and Revolution playing in the background. What that song is saying is a damned sight more important than flogging running shoes." "Music is replete with the meaning of the time," reflects Marshall Blonsky, a professor of semiotics at New York City's New School for Social Research. "Beatles music has to do with revolt...
...watch on Rubin at least a year earlier, after assessing him as talented but riskprone. Last week the company began an in-house probe and fired a second trader, who had allegedly failed to disclose investments and lost $10 million. Meanwhile, colleagues began looking for hints in Rubin's background about why he took such a plunge. According to one account, the trader had been a devoted blackjack player before his business-school days...
...first act moves along at a brisk pace and is much more intense than the second, which lags and looks under-rehearsed. The play chiefly consists of monologues, but their intensity is undermined by the actors in the background. They seem unsure of what to do when not speaking and occasionally lapse out of character and look around the theater...