Word: foregrounded
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...actually showed a quarter earth, reflecting sunlight in the dark lunar sky. It was the first photograph of earth ever taken from deep space, and it was shot by Lunar Orbiter 1 from a point only 27 miles above the surface of the moon. Clearly visible in the foreground was part of the lunar surface marked by its familiar craters. But most of the visible portion of the earth was covered by swirling white clouds that obscured the outlines of the terrestrial continents...
...death of all the killing, and decides to support the powers that be for the sake of peace and quiet. She joins the SS nursing corps, but discovers to her horror that SS nurses are better trained to kill than to cure. As her personal tragedy unfolds in the foreground, the national disaster is glimpsed in the background: bobbies accompanied by German tommy gunners, state offices staffed by arrogant blackshirts, press oppressed, radio reduced to martial music and rigged news, ghettos behind barbed wire, extermination depots scattered through England's green and pleasant land. In the end, the heroine...
...oceans of space" swelled across the background of most 19th century U.S. painting. Whether seas of grass or prairies of briny waves, the American wilderness seemed to have only distant dimensions. The way to conquer that expanse was to shrink it to human scale and bring man to the foreground of the new nation's wide horizons. Winslow Homer set out to bring the American vista into focus...
...simply, the artist has divided his composition in two: at right, the blue haze dissolves into atmospheric depth; while at left, the leafy, lemon-bearing latticework seems to push the Madonna's arm forward. The artist flips her cloak inside out to balance the push and pull between foreground and background, playing its green lining against distant hills, its blue surface against the trellis...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "Masterpieces and Music," with Charles Boyer waxing rhapsodic over art works in the background, while Leontyne Price, Benny Goodman, Ballet Dancer Edward Villella and the New Christy Minstrels perform in the foreground...