Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Langley, the D.A., was in no mood to wait for the state investigation. At that point the Oregon Journal-which had been left behind on the story except to play up denials and countercharges-leaped to the foreground. Langley sent official raiders, accompanied by Journal reporters (but no Oregonian staffers) to the home of an ex-policeman named Raymond F. Clark, who had made the tapes for Racketeer Elkins. They found some 30 more tapes, made at Elkins' bidding. The Journal splashed the story of the raid on its front page; the Oregonian buried it in the sports section...
Dunster, stroked by Peter Franck, edged Leverett and Adams, by half a length and a length respectively, although the Funsters had lost to both crews in the preliminary race Tuesday. From the foreground in the picture above, the crews are: Kirkland, Adams, Eliot, Leverett, and Dunster...
Background becomes foreground when the two men share a recuperative leave on the French Riviera. Sam Loggins meets and falls in love with Monique, a raven-haired American beauty who has been brought up in France. With knowing French jokes and urbane, intellectual patter, Britt Harris parley-voodoos her under his spell and out of Sam's arms, and even proposes marriage. The whole affair takes a bizarre turn when Monique tells him that her father was a Negro. Britt rejects her in a drunken fury, Monique commits suicide, heartbroken Sam resolves to kill Britt. The last quarter...
...resistance on the Square, however, as enraged townsmen, swearing the machines were part of a University plot, barracaded themselves inside the crumbling walls of old Fort Yuma. The Public Works Department ("Golden Arm" Sullivan's code name for the 4th Sappers Unmounted Light) attempted to erect scaling ladders (see foreground) but pikemen within kept the ladders without. In addition to the sidewalk squad, the City Council finally declared a state of emergency and seized the MTA. Thus Transit Authority equipment led the attack on Massachusetts Ave. and Arrow Street. Featured in the MTA fleet were three brand new Walter Snow...
...demonstrated by soth Century-Fox Film Corp. The film is first shot on a 55-mm. negative, then reduced to the standard 35-mm. size used by conventional projectors. The scale-down reduces the grainy effect of the pictures, puts the background almost as clearly in focus as the foreground. Fox's Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck claims that "we have eliminated the bothersome fall-off in focus on the sides of the screen, and totally eliminated distortion...