Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip, he brings back snapshot recollections of vivid ceremony and unaffected friendliness. Dwight Eisenhower, the world's best-known, most respected statesman, lifted personal prestige and national influence to new highs from Rome to New Delhi to Paris. But equally as important as the President himself was the backdrop of popular reaction to his visits. His trip was a success because the American idea is a success; he had once and for all destroyed the myth that anti-Americanism prowls the world. The roaring welcomes defined no new world view of the U.S.; what they did was to dramatize...
...final scene the audience was deeply moved by Oedipus (Tenor Gerhard Stolze) staggering onstage before Designer Caspar Neher's abstract backdrop (it looked like a microphotograph of a germ culture) and raising his sightless eyes with a beatific smile. Soprano Varnay refused to watch from the wings because "I dream about such things." Reported TIME Correspondent Paul Moor: "For a non-German-speaking audience, this opera has long, boring stretches because the music is so subservient to the text. Nevertheless, Orff has created a theater work of gripping power...
Against the backdrop of Paris, where people seem more interesting anyway, the superb German film Mon Petit tells a love story--"sometimes funny, sometimes sad"--which is consistently wonderful to watch. From the moment director Helmut Kautner appears to introduce his audience to "out boy and girl" until he walks down the boulevard at the end, his masterful hand changes ordinary into unique, ennui into comedy, sex into lyricism, and Paris into the colors of Cezanne...
...they were disappearing or going straight-those worldly cities that make so glamorous a backdrop for TV thrillers. Now it was the turn of Tangier...
...leftfield (251 ft. at the foul line) clanged like a Chinese gong under the impact of balls that would have been easy outs in other parks. On occasion, outfielders staggered about mazily as flies descended out of the sun. Batters strained to pick out the ball from the backdrop of shirtsleeved bleacherites in centerfield. "I don't know how these fellows can even hit the ball," confessed Umpire Ed Hurley. "The ball just seems to explode in your face...