Word: foregrounds
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...influence depend on prolonged fighting. Sooner or later, Thieu, with American logistical support, will attempt to suppress dissension by physically liquidating its leadership. Still, the student peace advocates insist that regardless of any short-term success by the government in repressing their movement, new people will come to the foreground. Ultimately, they assure you, an independent peace will and must come...
...Danang, black Marines have designed a flag for black soldiers in Vietnam. A red background symbolizes blood shed by blacks in the war and in race conflict in America. A black foreground represents the face of black culture. At the center are crossed spears and shield, meaning "violence if necessary," surrounded by a wreath, symbolizing "peace if possible." The flag bears a legend in Swahili, meaning "My fear...
...historical and anecdotal interest. The best come from an unsentimental brush, free from the snare of an over-appealing subject. A winter scene in Brooklyn, half way between landscape and genre, shows a section of New York City as a country town with a wood pile in the foreground and animals walking in the snow...
...developed beyond that of his earlier films. One notes the familiar traits of his camerawork: shots that track across a situation rather than into characters; telephoto lenses used at certain points to achieve selective depth of field, so that he can pull focus from a character in the foreground to the background. Beyond their narrative function, these techniques turn the background from a spatially articulated field of objects into a flat surface of colors. The only place where objects are distinct from one another is in the son's bedroom. Elsewhere we see behind the characters a single plane which...
...cuts like the camera motions are made deeply affecting by the background's quality of malleability. One closeup in bed is extremely disturbing because in the dark the characters' faces become part of the tangibly expressive world of the background. More generally, the characters' detailed actions in the foreground gain incredible emotional resonance from the deeply colored backgrounds, and when a tracking shot turns a corner with a character and sets the background plane at a different angle, the affective quality of the shot is completely changed...