Word: foreground
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shattered on Sept. 11. Grief reconfigured the community, connecting strangers through loss. Artist Matt Mahurin found seven people from the county who had lost loved ones and fit them into a photo montage of recovery. Brendan Ryan, who lost his wife Kristy Irvine Ryan, stands in the foreground beside Kristy's sister Wendy Toomey. Together with other grieving relatives and neighbors, they constitute a new horizon, alive and irrevocably altered
...will, but what a thrill"), before surrendering to ecstatic inanity: "Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire!" The second verse, which explains the singer's agitation as an agreeable form of sexual psychosis, punctuates the news with three right-hand arpeggios, while the bass drum is joined by a foreground tapping (presumably the rim of the snare drum), as if someone is keeping time on the mike with his buck teeth. In the bridge, Jerry Lee's left hand rumbles menacingly up to the break, when four-note poundings heighten the melodrama of the lyric: "You're fine, so kind...
...public exhibition to make a commentary on everyday life in Boston. Devon Guillery, a junior at West Roxbury High School, divided his mural with a street: on the right side are pristine white houses with doghouses and porches, and on the left, a boarded up housing project. In the foreground, two young men walk by gazing pensively out of the painting. “I decided to paint what I’ve seen,” he said. “I know both these worlds...
...floor. Various upward pointing buildings with varying degrees of height and intricacy rise seemingly out of nowhere; but in the far distance we see other “miniature cities”—worlds unto themselves that we can never access—and in the foreground, almost unnoticeable at first glance, are two figures, one at left playing a small pipe and the other at far right lying down, his head and face wrapped. The cloudy blue sky and deep blue mountains in the distance enhance the spiritual vastness of this imagined dream world...
...exhibit’s most compelling print. It depicts another street corner, where the camera looks obliquely down a long city street. The image is divided vertically by another grey lamp post; on its right, a pretzel vendor plies his trade while on the left in the foreground a balding, mousy looking man’s face is half-obscured by an enormous brown paper bag. Far in the deep background, yet clearly visible, are the two towers of the World Trade Center. This exhibit was assembled in the wake of Sept. 11, so it cannot but be for conscious...