Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clapprood spoke of an alcoholic father and growing up on welfare, and Tracey pointed out her working class background...
Kendall also brings to Clinton's defense a criminal-law background that includes the only type of cases whose consequences can make impeachment seem trivial: death-penalty appeals. He made that his specialty during the 1970s as an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer. To build a relationship with his condemned clients, he would play chess with them by postcard, with as many as nine miniature boards of partly played games cluttering his cramped office at any given time. And Kendall once had to be restrained from throwing a punch at a burly warden who refused to allow his doomed client John Spenkelink...
...Self-employed decorative artist Jill Saddic, 29, of New York City recently completed a one-semester course in multimedia and design at N.Y.U.'s continuing-ed school. The certificate she received will help springboard her further into computer graphic arts. "I didn't really have any kind of computer background, but I felt that I needed a really specialized course to advance myself," says Saddic, who has a bachelor's degree in illustration. "Going back to school for another full-fledged degree just would not have been practical...
...afternoons ago, I stopped by my term-time place of employment, an economics research facility near Harvard, and chatted with graduate students about life there, dipping into the ever-present background buzz of academia, of which I'm constantly reminded by the legions of friends doing thesis research. Many, many lunches and dinners, the long-delayed, much-rescheduled, "we-should-have lunch" lunches, finally happening...
This notwithstanding, the program was hardly highbrow. Dishes clattered in the background, buses drove by on Bennett St., and a hum of chatter from passers by limited any serious attempt to appreciate the music...