Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finished picture does not altogether overleap convention; it looks staged, and has a flattering slickness. Yet its virtues far outweigh its faults. The Walnut Street backdrop gives a fresh-air feeling to what would otherwise be a Vulcan's cave. The young apprentice nicely complements Lyon's robust maturity. His big feet spread and firmly planted, his heavy arm and hand holding the hammer with negligent authority. Blacksmith Pat Lyon himself easily dominates the huge canvas. He seems truly at home in it-as the workingman has long since come to be in the nation...
...built-in elevator at the rostrum is being installed to adjust the speakers' height to the cameras (which are hard to move, what with delegates about). Instead of rows of dignitaries clogging the platform, only a few committeemen and VIPs will be onstage-against a bare backdrop. ¶ Republican Bertha Adkins, assistant to Chairman Leonard Hall, is handing out TV-inspired advice to the ladies: no large-brim hats or veils ("they might keep the televiewers from recognizing their delegates"), nothing white next to the face ("detracts from the skin tone of TV images"), no big-striped dresses...
Cyprus. State proclaimed its concern over "violence . . . a blind and senseless course in the settlement of international relations" as a helpful backdrop for Britain's new plan to straighten out the Cyprus problem...
...sole truth, his own. In this compact novel of grace and distinction, John (Hiroshima, The Wall) Hersey captures the essential pathos of such culture struggles, seeing them as encounters between two goods rather than between good and evil. In A Single Pebble, a story set against the backdrop of the China of three decades ago, the West's Promethean spirit of change collides with the East's age-old piety of tradition, and both lose...
...Alice Lon, looking like a man who has just successfully completed a course at Arthur Murray's. Welk twinkles a good deal and the big event of each show is when Welk harnesses himself to his $5,000 Pancordion and plays a number against the program's backdrop of champagne bubbles...