Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...left his wife and three children to go and work on the railroad in Nebraska." He gives them family relationships, such as "Oprah Winfrey is the sister of a man who used to live on my block in Philadelphia in the 1950s." He also gives the shows a historical context, such as "when Art Carney was doing vaudeville, doughnuts were a nickel and a whole sandwich was a dime...
THIS amazing grasp of the whole context of a show extends to an analysis of the actors as well. He claims to know many of them personally, or at least he knows all of their relatives...
Step Three: Keep It in Context...
...transitional site between Harvard and the neighborhood, so we've been looking at the buildings around it for context," Bechtel said. Among the buildings Bechtel examined are the Union and Wigglesworth Hall, he said...