Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...training, Wright began working for GE in 1969. He has been a close Welch ally since 1973, when he joined the GE plastics group that Welch then headed. Wright is said to have been a major behind-the-scenes force in organizing the merger of GE and RCA. His background suggests a distinct change from the relaxed management style and well-established Hollywood connections of Tinker, who moved the network from the ratings basement to No. 1 during his five-year reign...
...fancy bookshops as well. Like its predecessors, Muzak and Mantovani, New Age music is easily disparaged. Yet music that relaxes need not be devoid of content. Bach composed the Goldberg Variations to ease the slumbers of an insomniac, and his contemporary, Telemann, wrote reams of Tafelmusik, music intended as background to dining. Quality is not necessarily restricted by function...
...Notes page has been written by Princeton English Major Wendy Smith, who handled a variety of other articles as well. And this week's cover story on the newly revealed paintings of Andrew Wyeth was reported in part by Amanda Jo Neubardt, who was able to draw on her background as a Barnard art-history major...
...societal problem at the focus, and in the background of this film is poverty, rendered with realistic ambiguity, by means of shots of grey streets, shabby clothing, and simple clowning of street kids. The film makes no didactic statement about the evils of poverty, but shows us its results, good and bad, through the actions of Pat and Madjid...
...adaptations of his work. But Ambler remembers them: "The Mask of Dimitrios had been made cheaply in standing sets and on the Burbank lot with Warner contract players, and by that time had already been tipped as a 'sleeper' . . . I had not expected to enjoy myself --Background to Danger with George Raft had made me very queasy--but I had not expected a screen Dimitrios to give me stomach cramps. They were quite severe." At the close, he imagines an ideal novelist-turned-screenwriter. After he completes his assignment, says Ambler, he has a sense "of anti- climax, a feeling...