Word: foreground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Staggers' investigators have closely questioned some CBS employees about past transgressions on the news. Among the sequences that have drawn the investigators' attention are shots of an Idaho forest blaze that reports say were enhanced by setting afire trees in the foreground. Another: an allegedly staged closeup in Viet Nam where a Marine touched a lighter to a thatched roof for added drama in an already dramatic story on the burning of a village...
...given an isolated image of an unknown landscape-context always gives the greater meaning, and the most powerful context is provided. Prominent in the photograph, in as great detail as the rocks and sky and shadows, is the railroad curving through, the locomotive portrait-frozen in the foreground. It made everything all right. Made it possible to call all that land Colorado Arizona Nevada instead of a hard-consonant two-headed monster. Made it all as conceivable as the land beneath the tracks in Pennsylvania Massachusetts New York. New Mexico has nothing to do with an old namesake in Europe...
...symptoms familiar to anyone who has tried to kick the habit. Such civil strife is grossly overdone, and the refinement of Lear's touch is perhaps best exhibited when a Pentagon colonel promises the town a share in the defense budget: a large bull is shown in the foreground...
...single artistic statement of distinction is not the work of a university undergraduate. Heidi Pape, a Smith graduate and a student of Leonard Baskin's, contributed a large woodblock print and a small abstract graphic print. In the woodblock, a female figure inclined upon a table in the foreground gazes backwards towards a checkerboard avenue overhung with intertwined branches of menacing black trees. Entitled "Playroom," it suggests mystery and romance, foreboding and longing. Especially admirable for its command of intent, the print is reminiscent, in the swift and clawing strokes winding around the woman's body, of certain German expressionists...
Even offscreen, she seems to have been scripted by a nostalgic romanticist. She grew up in New York's Westchester County, amid acres of woods that looked like backdrops for Burne-Jones paintings. Ali lived like one of the foreground figures. "We had rather little money," she recalls. "My parents were artists; for Christmas, my mother used to make me things like a doll's house with chandeliers and wallpaper inside, and dresses for the dolls. In the winter, my brother Dick and I sat in front of the fireplace and talked with my father, surrounded by books. We were...