Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that one, you know the one, it's got that funky beat in the background and these synthesized voice thingies and he's singing about some metaphor for something I think...
Anyone who has seen a movie in the past two years is familiar with the idea of movie Web sites that provide trailers, background information and even video games related to the plot...
...best in the U.S. Acquavella impressed on Wynn that in the art market, there are no bargains: he would have to pay top dollar for top works. The big test of this came with buying the first of two Van Goghs, Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat, painted a few weeks before the artist's suicide at Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890. This exceptional portrait had been hanging on loan in the Metropolitan Museum, and it cost Wynn a nonnegotiable $47.5 million of his own money, not the Bellagio's. (So far, Wynn's Mirage Resorts Inc. has picked...
...with any good marine fiction, the sea itself is background, scene shifter and, from time to storm-lashed time, main character. But the series swims also on an ocean of wondrous language, in which inept seamen, for instance, are not only "sad brutish grobians," but "froward dirty disreputable rough good-for-nothing disorderly ragabashes and raparees." If there is a serious flaw, it is that since the novels are mostly about men, they are probably mostly for men. O'Brian writes good female characters, but mostly they remain ashore (and one of the best, Maturin's flamboyant wife Diana, dies...
...Disney has a worse problem with pedophiles than others. The way they handle the problem is at issue here." A Disney spokesman denied that the company had any role in killing the story. On Friday the Orlando Sentinel reported that Walt Disney World has begun requiring criminal-background checks on all new hires...