Word: foregrounded
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...Deck: at the Edgartown Yacht Club," a crowd of upper-crust men and women schmooze on a boat. Men in sunglasses drink and chat and look vacant. Women sit clustered around a table in the foreground; their circle, like their lifestyle, is closed...
...excluded from the lavish world that Norfleet has put on display. Two women's backs block the foreground. All we catch is the smoke of their cigarettes trailing up into the sky. One woman, her skin as taught as plastic surgery might allow, stares virtually through us. Her sunglasses shade her from the sun and the world as the viewer knows...
Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis, though a straightforward piece, is an amazingly densely scored work. It is to the orchestra's credit that it managed a solid performance while maintaining subtle differentiations between foreground and background material...
...only through clever filmmaking hanky-pankery such as computer composites of foreground and background that he is made to appear to be in China in Red Corner. Although such steps were not necessary for other actors and crew, the film on the whole has the feel of a fairly good court-room drama that has been uprooted and transplanted to China through the magic of cinema. It is as though someone used computers and special filters to see what Regarding Henry would be like if it took place in the Far East...
With the fall season behind them and a long winter of contemplation in the foreground, Harvard enters its break like never before...