Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broadcasting booth in the foreground of this picture was empty at 5 p.m. yesterday. It will almost certainly still be empty at 2 p.m. today--the time when WHRB begins its Cornell game broadcast from the back row of the Stadium press...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts' recently acquired Ecce Homo (right) helps correct that impression. Unlike Bosch's better-known canvases of nightmare torture and lust, it presents the actual: a turning point in human history. Bosch packed the expressions of the foreground crowd with cruelty and pride and made Pilate a picture of complacency, but these purely human horrors convince the mind as well as the eye. Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, dominates the scene by His gentleness, and speaks through it to the heart...
...final portrait was a handsome, delicately painted oil that looked like a faded Buddhist scroll suggesting blue mountains, red sky and willow-green foreground. At this point, according...
...Foreground. Whether or not this clear-eyed British counsel reached his ears or understanding, Roosevelt ignored it. Bohlen's minutes show the President ready to give Stalin just what he wanted...
...foreground are the Italian bolidi-Alfa-Romeos, Ferraris, Maseratis-here and there a Mercedes and a Gordini; much elegant metal and, no doubt, to fanciers of horsepower, a sight prettier than slow old Europe. The racing scenes, in fact, are among the most frantic ever filmed. As the little red devils scream the curves and hellbat the straightaway, nose to rump of the car ahead, hot and light on the track as grits in a frying pan, the customer sits spang on the front axle-and sweats. Once in a while Kirk Douglas climbs out of his Ferrari and into...