Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleague of murder and then, with a stolen moneybag still not found, begins throwing pound notes around. When his wife asks where the cash came from, he mumbles something about the stock market and adds, as cellos groan ominously in what ought to be called the film's foreground music, "I made a killing...
...drunken celebration of victory to Chopin's Polonaise in A Major; the ironic reflection of V-E day fireworks in a stagnant pool, beside which the Communist boss lies dead; the lovers in a ruined church, its Christ figure splintered and dangling upside down in the foreground; Maciek setting fire to each glass of vodka on a bar and delivering weird incantations to old, dead loves; his girl drenched in sunlight while Maciek-in the death throes on a dank rubbish heap-whimpers and twitches like a wounded rabbit...
...painting that places him in the ranks of today's artistic funambulists, who walk the tightrope between schools. Quickly glimpsed, his paintings seem abstract; on inspection they turn out to be landscapes in which windows, doors, bits of floor, ship or building fill up the foreground while behind them stretches an endless sea. a distant city, a darkened wasteland. His titles-Death and Transfiguration, Edge of a City, At the Border-are slapped on afterward. The surrealist finds themes in the subconscious; Hultberg gets his ideas "from the preconscious-the half-remembered, half-conscious things you see just before...
...idiom, "because thees painting represent le dream of Columbus, and youth ees le time for dreams. Other figures are monks and sailors qui come along weeth Columbus." Modestly he adds that the monk completely hidden in his cowl is actually a self-portrait. The giant sea urchin in the foreground represents "le real shape of le earth as discovered by le American Satellite Explorer Two" (actually, Vanguard Beta). In his dream, Dali's young Columbus meets not Indians but symbols of past and future. He is greeted by a transparent Saint Narcissus, whose body is formed partly of flies...
...presence of bright Faculty lights gives the lecture system some value, but either the lecture system is not as good as it should be, or it has been thrust too far into the foreground of our educational practices. The Innocent will bless the men who are willing and able to teach in a lower level natural sciences course, or do a good job with an important introductory "survey," but confound the men who drone through the petrified information on their dog-eared three-by-five cards year after year, or recite from their glittering galley-proofs until the Dean...