Word: backrounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Backround #2; James Dean--After James Dean left Fairmount, he went to UCLA and then to New York to try to make an acting career New York in the '50s was friendlier to actors. There were lots of theaters, and television (not yet abstracted to Los Angeles) was serving as a new outlet. Dean joined the ranks of young actors at Strassburg's Actor's Studio and began getting small parts in televised plays. All of these shows were live...
...Backround #4; The role of the scriptwriter--Rebel Without A Causeis set in California and is ostensibly about the problems of juvenile delinquents. Dean plays an adolescent, whom his family does not understand, who is driven to various deeds of honor. The entire movie takes place during one 22-hour period--Dean's first day at a new high school. During this day, Dean will have to try to win acceptance into a gang at school and solve the problems of alienation. This is accomplished by driving a car vary fast toward a cliff in a game of chicken with...
...material on Remain In Light. "The Great Curve," "Houses In Motion," "The Listening Wind," and "Once In A Lifetime" set the standards by which the Heads new music will be judged. "Once In A Lifetime" is an incredibly complex song that is in fact three songs laid on one backround--polylyrics for plyrhythms. The continual exuberance of the polyrhythms matches the Bo Diddley beat in providing an automatic source of energy in a song, and this should encourage many groups to get funky. Could this be the trend of the eighties? Will Disco meet Rock by way of Africa...
...race was that she met Pappy. Coach Pappy Hunt and his leprechaun's twinkle and heavy Boston brogue got Rogers back on the track, the Harvard indoor track. "Pappy turned it all around for me. He paid attention to me, even though he knew nothing about me--my running backround wasn't exactly illustrious," Rogers says...
...Erik Nuri and The Cost of Living," a locally-renowned band, Nuri combined his vocation and avocation this summer with the release of "Let's Vote," a "rap" record with a political message. "Rap" records, the hottest discs on the Black music charts this year, feature a repetitive rhythmic backround and lyrics which have the singer tell a story in a conversational tone...