Word: foregrounds
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...lighter touches. When the Widow Quinn bargains with lily-livered Shawn to get the playboy out of the way, when the drunken Flaherty endeavors to maintain a fatherly dignity, when the playboy discovers his good looks, when "Pegeen" upbraids him as a pretender, then does Synge bring to the foreground his intimacy with the Irish humors...
...limestone, black for coal, yellow for sand, red for iron ore. Critics rated the frescoes first-class, noted an increasing hardness and sharpness in Rivera's detail. Nearly overlooked was a little panel high on one wall, showing a child being vaccinated in a serum laboratory. In the foreground were serum-giving animals, a horse, a bull and sheep, traditional beasts of Holy Nativity pictures...
...will shoot a sitting bird by reading Van Loon's Geography for mistakes; but even a fellow-amateur may hit on some. The graphic sketches and three-dimensional maps are often effective, enlightening, sometimes merely unscientific and cheap, for example a drawing of Fujiyama with a tree in the foreground captioned "The Old Japan"; the same drawing with a cannon substituted for the tree, captioned "The New Japan." Author Van Loon's bright chapter headings catch the eye, may engage many a reader: "Bulgaria, the soundest of all Balkan countries, whose butterfly-collecting King bet on the wrong horse during...
...kept his stage part of "dear old Charlie" Marsden, the epicene friend. May Robson as Sam's mother booms compellingly. The modernistic set of Nina's Park Avenue home is excellent. Noteworthy are frequent transparency shots which require a previously photographed background to be fitted to the foreground by the use mainly of a plate-glass screen blasted with flour...
What gives the picture its value is the way in which the strewn foreground of streets and people becomes a constant, potent presence in the life of the doctor's family. Tempo suffers when the actors in the story pause to explain themselves; but their emotions, chiefly the emotion of deep family love, are honestly and brilliantly presented. Ricardo Cortez, hired for his part when he explained that he was no Spaniard but a Jew, gives a sensitive and humble portrayal. Max Steiner's musical score is particularly interesting when it blends with and loses itself in the murmuring...