Word: foregrounds
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...same in both painting and photo; a social realist, influenced by the Cubists, he captures different planar levels in "Roadside Inns," "Destitute Ozark Residents," and "Cotton Pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas." The young girls picking cotton carry their long white bags like wedding trains falling in curves down the foreground of the photo. These cotton workers are as much tied to their jobs as the black woman in "Relief Check, Scotts Run, West Virginia" is tied to a life on welfare. Leaning out the window in ragged shirt and skull cap, she stares right through the check she is holding...
...contains good, solid country rock, and the music is layered nicely. In general, Marmaduke sings very well; his voice is especially fitted for the Riders' kind of wispy, mournful tunes. Dryden's percussion adds to the tone of the songs without obscuring the foreground. Garcia, as always, is Garcia: often out of tune, occasionally absent-minded, but nevertheless, undisciplinedly great. He shoots off long, sinuous strands of pedal steel, especially in "All I Ever Wanted": his guitar turns a semi-Paul McCartney lament into a really moving love song...
Staggers' investigators have closely questioned some CBS employees about past transgressions on the news. Among the sequences that have drawn the investigators' attention are shots of an Idaho forest blaze that reports say were enhanced by setting afire trees in the foreground. Another: an allegedly staged closeup in Viet Nam where a Marine touched a lighter to a thatched roof for added drama in an already dramatic story on the burning of a village...
...given an isolated image of an unknown landscape-context always gives the greater meaning, and the most powerful context is provided. Prominent in the photograph, in as great detail as the rocks and sky and shadows, is the railroad curving through, the locomotive portrait-frozen in the foreground. It made everything all right. Made it possible to call all that land Colorado Arizona Nevada instead of a hard-consonant two-headed monster. Made it all as conceivable as the land beneath the tracks in Pennsylvania Massachusetts New York. New Mexico has nothing to do with an old namesake in Europe...
...symptoms familiar to anyone who has tried to kick the habit. Such civil strife is grossly overdone, and the refinement of Lear's touch is perhaps best exhibited when a Pentagon colonel promises the town a share in the defense budget: a large bull is shown in the foreground...