Word: foregrounded
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...stage was the nation. Just before the President stepped to the foreground, there was a commotion in the wings. But John L. Lewis, even with a well-timed gesture of patriotism, did not detract from the fundamental importance of what the President had to say. Although speaking directly to the miners, the President addressed himself in a broader sense not to individuals or to groups but to the nation...
From Tunisia, fortnight ago, came five striking newspictures. U.S. publishers played them big. One was particularly eye-catching: a photo of a U.S. patrol advancing across a Tunisian plain while in the foreground Medical Corpsmen fixed up a wounded trooper. TIME and the news papers, rushing to press, played the picture straight. The New York Daily News gave it a ten-column, double-truck display, called it "a great battle picture"; so did Editor & Publisher, publication trade weekly. LIFE, pondering the picture, had grave qualms, finally printed it double-spread, but with a skeptical caption: ". . . In spite of the apparent...
Objects in the foreground are widely separated on the screen. Those in the far background are the same in both pictures. The result is a realistic impression of distance and shape...
...Issues and campaign tactics ran along .familiar grooves. War formed the broad backdrop-all candidates favored a vigorous prosecution of the war. But local issues lay in the foreground as more decisive factors. Most definite straw in the November wind seemed to catch up domestic issues like loopholes in price-control, Congressional pensions, gasoline X cards...
Author Schoyer's foreground is an international settlement -an assortment of the people whom the Chinese call Big Noses-foreign missionaries, doctors, teachers and their families, in a city in Central China. For the first 300 pages they are absorbed in fighting about the erection of a monument to a presumably martyred missionary-a monument which will be dangerously insulting to the Chinese. For the next 300 pages they are engulfed in broader troubles-the Japanese invasion. By the end of the book their city is in ruins...