Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening are produced by that mixture of set designers, lighting men and hangers-on billed as the "Brattle Street Trust." The scenery, which is a blend of lighting and well-chosen props, makes a fascinating, fluid background to the strange play that jerks enigimatically along in the foreground...
...triumph. At 65, Lindbergh may find the 25-year-old boy as awkwardly remote as would any other aging hero facing his youth. Yet it is significant that he was able to move on to do other things, live other lives-to be active, useful and himself. The quiet foreground formed by his recent years renders the memory all the brighter: the memory of the youth with the world's imagination in his hands, showing what man is and can become...
...made--perhaps destroying three prints of alternative spatial arrangement and then framing the fourth--a particular composition may become so perfect that it's hard to imagine that a real choice has ever been made. Arnold Newman's portrait of Igor Stravinsky and his black piano on a white foreground is one of these unquestionable arrangements...
Pearson also reshuffled the Cabinet of his Liberal government for the first time since last year's general elections. The effect was to bring into the foreground bright new men whose influence will be to pull French-speaking Quebec more closely into the English-dominated confederation. To make room, out went Minister of Justice Lucien Cardin, 48, and Privy Councilor Guy Favreau, 49, who are both ailing and wanted to quit. Into the largely ceremonial privy-council post, where he can continue his study of the Canadian economy, moved former Finance Minister Walter...
Sissy Prince. From the outset, it was apparent that what Chagall had conceived was not so much background scenery but foreground commentary, much of it highly personal. The curtain opened on a great swirling storm of colors, which, as the massive backdrops rose and fell through 16 scenes, rolled across the footlights in rainbow waves. And awash in it all were the familiar Chagall symbols: floating maidens, topsy-turvy trees, horned animals, bursting suns and moons, and all manner of creepy crawlers and little winged things...