Word: foregrounds
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...appeared on the front page of almost every U.S. newspaper, the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen did not look like a thing of beauty. Its squat towers, like two massive beer mugs, looked typically Teutonic. The picture, taken on a grey day, showed the grey rubble of war in the foreground. But the bridge was intact, and therein lay its exquisite beauty. Every American could see in it an imminent promise of victory in Europe...
...Strip Tease was easily, by the width of a broad bottom, the raciest picture the staid Corcoran had ever thus honored. It showed a slightly idealized, if muscular, ecdysiast in mid-routine. The variously brooding faces of seven balding burlesque-addicts include the artist's own, in foreground (see cut). Artist Marsh found the inspiration for Strip Tease in a Union City, N.J. burlesque house, painted the picture on gesso panel in a soft-toned mixture of egg yolk and dry color...
...clock everything is quiet. Chinese troops in grey-blue uniforms are squiggling around in the foreground. Suddenly Major John J. Pakula, American air officer, says: "Okay, they're on their way in." A Chinese officer yells "Yenmutan" ("smoke shell") to his telephonist...
Effie is just about old enough to be Charley's great aunt. Her background is New England, her foreground bosomy. Her lower lip is lush. On her purple, leg-of-mutton-sleeved blouse she sports a gold lapel watch which Bergen bought for her for $35 in a Manhattan curiosity shop. She sets off her sleekly whittled nether extremities in Gay Nineties round-striped hose...
...left lies the narrow Liri Valley, through which leads the only practical road-but it is not passable so long as the Germans can pour deadly fire from the hills behind Cassino. This was proved in the first attack last January. U.S. troops crossed the Rapido (in the foreground), only to be forced to retire after heavy casualties...