Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just as good as the next one at picking up WHRB while it was broadcasting a football game, my roommate was gratified to hear cheering crowds right after he had made his "big point." The most interference of all, however, results from calling the Quad. Maybe the cosmic background radiation is the problem there, AT&T engineers would tell...
...WADE (NBC, May 15, 9 p.m. EDT). Background viewing for Supreme Court watchers: Holly Hunter (Broadcast News) plays the Texas woman who sued to terminate her pregnancy in this docudrama about the landmark abortion case now under review...
Chief of staff John Sununu adds, "We're less interested in looking good than in getting results . . . and we're willing to work very closely with Congress to get results." That is where Bush uses tools Reagan never had: energy, intense interest and background in the details of policy and long- standing personal ties to lawmakers and other Washington insiders...
Reni's image of the young Baptist, modeled to the nth degree of sensitivity, warm against the cold blues and dark greens of the framing landscape, seems about to speak; and to look at the landscape background is to realize what English artists a century later, particularly Gainsborough, would gain from Reni. He had an inspired sense of the mechanics of composition, as Nessus and Dejanira proves: an airy ballet on the theme of rape, in which every billow and facet of the drapery seems to operate as form...
Partly because he worked from sketches, engravings or memories of sculpture, Reni's heroic male nudes -- the Samson Victorious, and the various figures of Hercules done for the Gonzaga in Mantua -- have a sculptural intensity that blots out the rest of the painting. Background figures scurry about in deep recession, half transparent, like wraiths out of Tintoretto; the landscape is simplified into broad plains; against this, the single magnified body rises up. One remembers only the imposing structure turning, as it were, before the eye, displaying its stresses and bulges -- straining for embodiment and yet defeating it with...