Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tour began in front of Mass. Hall. Organizers addressed the crowd as the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" played in the background...
...have departed the military for politics that day, but he never really stopped fighting. McCain's political career, from Congress to the Senate to a presidential campaign, can seem like a seamless extension of his Navy background, even of his genetic code. "He came from his grandfather and father," says high school friend Malcolm Matheson. "Both of them were small men and tough and scrappy. This man can do no other than that." His campaigns were less about issues and ideas than about hard work and grit. For him, the political is personal. He didn't much care whether...
...They're going to lose momentum," he says, stepping outside Gnomon's into the morning drizzle. "If somebody starts too early on, they're old news by the time the election rolls around...their stuff will fade into the background...
Fading into the background is something no one could accuse Dreyfus of doing. Over six feet tall, with thick glasses and a ragged black ponytail, he is a slightly imposing presence as he strides through the Yard to the Science Center. While waiting for his copies, he is going to the Media and Production Center to rent a megaphone...
...Sean Penn), is a brooding, inarticulate, freewheeling figure motivated by moody emotions. Sure, hes neurotic as hell, but not in the style of nebbishy self-analysis that has informed so many Allen protagonists. Emmets comic/pathetic exploits are governed by the cadences of jazz, which has always been a background presence in Allens movies but takes center stage here. Although his personal life is an unstable mess and his treatment of women is worse than sub-par, Emmet Rays relationship with his musicand with his female musesburns with open-hearted sincerity. Though the loose series of vignettes that make up Sweet...