Word: foregrounded
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...flower pinned to Sarah Mifflin's bodice. What is especially striking about it is the way it preserves Quaker ideas of matrimonial equality. Conventional 18th century portraits have the wife looking adoringly at the husband, who looks at you. Not here: it is Sarah who occupies the foreground and fixes you with a composed, level gaze, while Thomas looks at her with a pride that seems very far from proprietorial complacency. It is a beautiful reflection of the equality of man and wife in a voluntary contract...
Freedman is the first to admit her team's age figures could be off 20% in either direction. The reason: no one knows whether M100 lies inside the Virgo cluster or whether it is more in the foreground or background. Astronomers have to check out other galaxies in the area before they are sure that M100 fairly measures the distance of the cluster as a whole. They're also checking galaxies outside Virgo, and while Freedman won't say what they have found so far, she told TIME that the results are "consistent" with the preliminary figures...
...full strength in The Autumn of Central Paris (After Walter Benjamin), 1972-73, with its diagonal mass of cafa habituas like creatures clinging insecurely to a reef-the whole structure, it seems, being undermined by a weird red figure among the red chairs in the foreground, indifferently wielding a pick...
...manipulated by her beauty, seeks to understand her, to circle her and to communicate desire to her in much the same way. Instead of comprehension and compassion, more often than not the viewer is given Vitti's neck and the back of her head, in a close-up foreground shot...
...common shot places a figure in the extreme foreground and the extreme background. Women run or walk tensely down long, narrow hall-ways that force the gaze nearly through the plane of the movie screen. The camera leans over a rocky cliff, peering over men's shoulders to a search party far below. Sandro looks over his shoulder to a women standing in front of a painting who turns to look...