Word: backgrounding
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...lights went up on The House that Ansiedade Built last weekend, 13 dancers and actors moved rhythmically to South American drumbeats against a vibrantly-colored patchwork background painted onto the Ex’s black walls...
...about the holder, including at least one form of biometric data, probably fingerprints. "We think a national approach is best rather than each port or state developing its own system," says Don Wylie, managing director of maritime services at the Long Beach port. The new system will standardize the background checks that some transportation workers already undergo. But objections are brewing. Nobody's enthused about the government having a database of their personal information, and the TSA fears the new card will be seen as a test run for a national ID card, a controversial idea. Workers are concerned that...
...says her own ethnically diverse background, which she claims includes “Irish blood from five generations ago,” has allowed her to find acceptance in any society, especially when it comes to culinary traditions...
...experiences—including her teenage life as a minister’s daughter in Defiance, Ohio, her 1961 Law School acceptance and her experience as one of the most powerful movers and shakers in Washington’s legal circles—Hope also includes historical background and detailed descriptions of her female classmates’ experiences...
...think the figures come out of the abstraction in Delaney’s works,” he says. “Delaney tends to preserve a clear line between the figure and the background...