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...cheesy '50s icons (tail fins, an "I Like Ike" button) and the omnipresent numerals 1-9-5-7. (That's the year, get it?) Howell Binkley's lighting comes in the same day glo hues, and succeeds most notably when the choreography is silhouetted against bright orange and yellow backlight. The costuming is outrageously gaudy; after the fifth combination of pink and black leather you begin to long for some nice pastels...

Author: By Rachel B. Tiven, | Title: Grease: You've Seen This One Before | 1/26/1994 | See Source »

...begins with images of serenity: wild flowers gently stirring in an almost imperceptible spring breeze; loons, bright-eyed and sleek, afloat on untroubled waters; the lake itself shimmering in the backlight of a dying sun. The first glimpses of Golden Pond are washed with the kind of burnished light that colors our recollections of better places and better times past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last. Kate and Hank! Hepburn and Fonda in On Golden Pond | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...fastback on some sports models, and this year and next the curve will continue its comeback in at least three Detroit offerings. Last week Chrysler introduced the first of the new fastbacks, the Barracuda, whose startlingly different appearance is caused by a huge (14.4 sq. ft.), sloping rear window-"backlight," in Detroit jargon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Fastback Coming Back Fast | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...Backlight is the rear window. Mercury's medium-priced Monterey will have one that opens. Press a button and the center section of the backlight slides down on two runners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Stylish Semantics | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

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