Word: foregrounding
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...increasing demand for certain goods--especially sugar, which had been introduced into the New World at about 1650. As a result of Europe's rapidly growing demand for sugar and later cotton, the plantation as an economic unit achieved prominence. The new plantation economy brought Africa into the foreground because plantation owners were quick to adopt forced labor for their main work-force. Slavery became one of the basic economic institutions of a large part of world production, and transatlantic slave trade became a booming business for English, New England and French merchants...
Meanwhile, reports TIME'S Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Charles Eisendrath, there is the irony of Argentine political life. It evokes, says Eisendrath, an image "despairingly similar to the landscapes of supercharged atrocity by Hieronymus Bosch. In the foreground a man accused of seducing a teen-age girl while he was President of the country has just re-entered it as a saint. Perón is flanked on one side by his third wife, Isabelita, 42, once a nightclub performer in Panama. On the other side of el Lider is Lopecito-Jose Lopez Rega-a former army corporal...
...look at the Boston Symphony's new music director, Seiji Ozawa, and a little foreground from Berlioz and Mozart. CH.5. 10 p.m. Color...
That is understandable. The script pretty well maroons him in a tide of bromides about the dirty business of spying. Winner, a director whose idea of filling the frame is to put something, anything-a sink, a vase-in the foreground of every shot, makes only occasional feints toward rescuing his star. However, there is a very clever, quietly brutal assassination scene. Some estimable players-Paul Scofield, John Colicos, J.D. Cannon-are present to lend support. There is even a certain obtuse symmetry to the carnage that closes the film. ∙Jay Cocks
Then and Now is the newest Doc and Merle Watson collection, and the first to give Merle equal billing with his father. It's only fitting, since after ten years the two play so well together, exchanging melody and harmony, lead and rhythm, foreground and background parts so cleanly and delicately that they produce what sounds like a single guitar playing impossibly intricate music. The sound is light, the rhythm flawless, and the product a source of inspiration to country-rock musicians from Jim Messina to Jerry Garcia...