Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That kind of tense action is always in the foreground. But the background is continually in use as well. Polanski often has the shot divided in half down the middle, and while a character talks in one half the other is left for out-of-focus entrances, clues, touches of atmosphere. Faye Dunaway comes in that way, behind Nicholson telling a dirty joke. And in the background, literally and figuratively, is where the thirties settings stay, unpretentious, accessory: a blurry old Coke sign reminded me how much more obtrusive the nostalgia bit is in some other recent films, say Robert...
...triangular sails the way a folded napkin might sit on a table. It is this still-life sea, a geometrical image of repose and wellbeing, that suffuses some of Gris's finest still lifes, like the View of the Bay (see color overleaf), with its firmly composed foreground of earth-colored guitar suavely undulating below the combed sky and receding gray headlands...
...this energy because he forms them with lines that breathe and kick and cry with the force of a newborn child. In his drypoint "Umbrella by the Sea" (1948), he expresses the size and movement of an ocean by the spacing and fluidity of the line alone. In the foreground he makes his lines wide and gently curving, like lapping waves, gradually becoming choppier as he moves out to sea. Then lines become crowded, quick slashes of his stylus. In the same way, in his three reclining nudes (1939, 1941 and 1948), the surety of his stroke...
...increasing demand for certain goods--especially sugar, which had been introduced into the New World at about 1650. As a result of Europe's rapidly growing demand for sugar and later cotton, the plantation as an economic unit achieved prominence. The new plantation economy brought Africa into the foreground because plantation owners were quick to adopt forced labor for their main work-force. Slavery became one of the basic economic institutions of a large part of world production, and transatlantic slave trade became a booming business for English, New England and French merchants...
Meanwhile, reports TIME'S Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Charles Eisendrath, there is the irony of Argentine political life. It evokes, says Eisendrath, an image "despairingly similar to the landscapes of supercharged atrocity by Hieronymus Bosch. In the foreground a man accused of seducing a teen-age girl while he was President of the country has just re-entered it as a saint. Perón is flanked on one side by his third wife, Isabelita, 42, once a nightclub performer in Panama. On the other side of el Lider is Lopecito-Jose Lopez Rega-a former army corporal...