Word: foreground
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...equivalent to one New York subway ride. The profound emotions shaping South Africa come with no extra charge. The performance is in Zulu, but spectators with no understanding of the language can grasp the feeling. Evocative words such as "AIDS," "lover boy," "our parliament" and "Mandela" are at the foreground. Hope and gloom duel in the background. Isicathamiya is South Africa's blues...
...these animated sequences were combined with matte paintings that would fill in parts of the frame outside the scope of the table-top set, giving the illusion of mountains and clouds in the distance, maybe a bottomless chasm on the left. More expensive productions would integrate actors in the foreground as well and then, as in the case of "Kong," find clever ways to suggest interaction between animated and live-action parts of the frame...
...caused the individual citations to hang together, though, was his eye for nature. Nowhere is this clearer than in his huge composition of 1937, The Mountain. Every one of the figures on this plateau of the Bernese Oberland is quoted from somewhere else--the girl lying down in the foreground comes from a Poussin, and so on. The green-capped rocks are real, but they are also inspired by Courbet's landscapes. But what so lifts the picture is its soft, rapturous golden light, bathing every complicated shape in clear air--and that was Balthus' own. He did not want...
Inside Washington's chatterbox culture, Cheney's silence and trademark smirk make people nervous. In his office a picture from his Gulf War days captures the perfect Cheney pose--former President Bush and General Colin Powell standing in the foreground while Cheney lurks in the background with what an aide calls his "cockeyed look," his shoulders hunched and a slanted, slightly menacing smile on his face. Since his days as Gerald Ford's chief of staff and, later, as second-ranking Republican in the House, that look has invited all manner of interpretations. Returning from White House meetings last week...
...naked boy stands at the edge of the woods, butt twisted toward the camera. The weeds in the foreground are excruciatingly in-focus. The title is "Marble Faun," evoking Hawthorne's primal America. The photographer is Fred Holland Day, a forgotten Bostonian who was famous in his time...