Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Getting there was tough enough - through the Star Wars video intros; the apocalyptic tones of Walter Cronkite; the engaging and intelligent diversion of Moderator Howard K. Smith (Smith for President); the veritable ocean of blue carpeting and blue backdrop; the contact lenses, blond coiffure three-piece suits of the interrogators; the shampoo and hamburger ads. Then, when the talk began, there was the image of little Amy carrying "nukear" proliferation on her shoulders when she ought to be out trick-or-treating, the specter of the witch doctor loose in Reagan's mind, Carter locked up and lonely...
Against the backdrop of the American flag, Carter said he accepted the decision of the nation's voters "though not with the same enthusiasm" that he accepted their verdict four years ago. He pledged to work closely with president-elect Reagan in hopes of the "best transition period in history...
Instead of drawing to a close against a backdrop of lengthening unemployment lines and deepening recession, as Democrats had feared and Republicans had expected, the campaign is climaxing with the economy perking up again. After a spring and summer of wary hesitation, consumers are starting to spend again and retail sales are inching up. A July-through-September survey of 1,600 top executives by New York's Conference Board research group shows business confidence itself to be improving...
...familiar yet urgent condition of the modernist tradition into which Milosz was thrust by history. As he wrote in Mid-Twentieth-Century Portrait (1945): "Keeping one hand on Marx's writings, he reads the Bible in private./ His mocking eye on processions leaving burnt-out churches./ His backdrop: a horseflesh-colored city in ruins...
...Polish television were kept to a minimum-became a familiar American-television face. With the usual American gift for hype, Republicans trotted out Walesa's father, who lives in New Jersey but doesn't speak English, to pose for TV cameras with Ronald Reagan against the backdrop of the Statue of Liberty...