Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Williams' observation that "no picking machine invented can cup and coax a tomato free like the human hand." Polk grows up in a seedy world of depressing boarding houses, trailer camps and sudden violence which gives the flashes of human love and devotion an original and affecting backdrop. By the time the Widow Odom tells him in Florida, "Boy, you're getting handsomer than the Devil in snakeskin shoes," Polk is reasonably immune to the surprises of life...
...decision about to be cast, the artificial trees in the lobby at Tokyo's Sankei Kaikan theater were festooned with large paper dice. The red curtain rose to reveal the elders of the party wearing white rosettes and seated onstage, with a huge rising sun as a backdrop...
...town's mill owners give the motivation, "The white workers and the coloured workers must not unite against us." Against this backdrop, the four children begin their friendship. One of the group, Billy, asks his teacher," "Miss Houghton, are white and black people brothers...
History Fenced In. Such gaily innocent concerns appear in grim contrast to the Russian backdrop. There are pitiable and grotesque vignettes of life in the home of the revolution-a man brutally beaten beside a cathedral and left helpless and ignored in the snow, female bouncers in a beer cellar, rapacious black-marketeers...
...geisha may be disappearing with the swift-changing status of the Japanese woman. But whether she prove phoenix or fossil, the geisha has found a compassionate historian in Author Yamata, a writer who knows how to highlight her heroines against the backdrop of theatrical restaurants and teahouses through whose sliding bamboo panels these sad gay ladies of Japan move to their discreet, historic and bittersweet rendezvous...