Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crouching before the mobile monitor unit and chain-smoking ("Three packs of Sponsor Marlboros a day"), Frankenheimer bellowed comments to his cast and production staff. "That's the shot! It's beautiful. I love it." "It's sloppy. It stinks." "Shoot tight on someone in the foreground." He turned to direct a scene where Gazzara has just discovered that his roommate is dead. "Okay. Start Benny out of the bathroom, fellows. C'mon, I don't have much time." (Explained Frankenheimer on the side: "If you don't drive them, you have last-minute...
...before he died in 1953, O'Neill was sent a photograph of his bygone birthplace, then a family hotel, since razed. In his thank-you note, the prize-laden (a Nobel and four Pulitzers) dramatist quipped about a figure, leaning against a lamppost in the picture's foreground, having "a bun on," was moved to reminisce: "In the old days, when I was born, a man−especially one from Kilkenny−went on a five-year drunk and finished by licking four cops, and then went home to raise hell because dinner was late...
...other foreground figures, all about 10 ft. tall, almost equal the central pair. Particularized, rather than idealized, they represent a triumphant manipulation of space, in gilded robes and meticulously formed figures, transcending the stiff, hierarchic form of the early Gothic style. The aging St. Peter reads a prayer, while another apostle offers holy water, and a third blows out a candle, symbol of life. St. John, on the dying Virgin's right, stricken with sorrow, raises his cloak. The outer figures, by their startled gaze and uplifted heads, point to the next act-the Assumption of the Virgin...
...painting on silk, is believed to be his. Done in metallic blues and greens, it creates a panorama of cloud-shrouded peaks and gorges against which is shown a group of horsemen and camels, led by a red-coated figure that may be Emperor Ming Huang himself. In the foreground, pack asses roll in the grass, while the column winds slowly ahead in a procession that ushers into Chinese art the great theme of the all-engulfing landscape...
...Harold Stewart, partner of Arthur and Young, Boston accounting firm, noted that "The impact of the federal income tax has projected the accountant and the corporate controller to the foreground...