Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Because of the President's personal commitment to the program," explains Talbott, "many sources of SDI stories had been willing to speak to the press only on background. We were determined to have our session on the record. One way to accomplish that was to invite the highest-ranking, most authoritative people on the subject." During a day that started at 7:45 a.m. and continued to 9 p.m., 30 TIME editors, writers, correspondents and reporter-researchers assembled in Washington to hear -- on the record -- a nonstop list of speakers, including SDI Director Lieut. General James Abrahamson...
Lobo was working at a biomedical laboratory in her native Maryland when she decided in 1976 that she could make more money by using her scientific background in a business career. After earning an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago, she was recruited by Ohio's Standard Oil to help found Vista Ventures, a venture capital firm with headquarters in New Canaan, Conn. She helped finance the Liposome Co., an enterprise specializing in the production of small membranes used to assist in administering medications and one of the biotechnology industry's hottest success stories. One of Lobo's current favored...
Creatures, spaceships and other objects are inserted into the action of the film by means of the blue-screen process. The figure is photographed against a blue background and then combined in an optical printer with the scene into which it will be placed. This procedure must be repeated each time a new element is added to the scene. The pastry creatures that came to life in Young Sherlock Holmes, for example, were hand-manipulated rod puppets, each shot individually and added one by one in as many as twelve layers. For a brief shot of a space battle...
Location is as important to detective fiction as it is to the real estate business. The glitz centers of the Sunbelt offer the irresistible drama of drug traffic played against a background of pastel, stucco and palm fronds. Joseph Hansen (Fadeout, A Smile in His Lifetime, Gravedigger) offers an alternative to the macho, down-at-the-heels stereotype. He is David Brandstetter, a Southern California insurance investigator who is affluent, well dressed and homosexual. This subgenre is bicoastal; see George Baxt's novels, beginning with A Queer Kind of Death. The protagonist is a gay New York City police detective...
Sperber is neither a subtle reader of Murrow's prose nor, despite her Fulbright-scholar background in political science, a decisive analyst of his ideology. She does evoke the shy, moody, sometimes preening yet fiercely loyal man who inspired such admiration and affection. Still, this should not be the conclusive Murrow biography...