Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...starting time, the sun had set and the sky painted a navy blue backdrop, with traces of pink scraping the horizon...
...Ambush. They are all homosexual "leather" bars that cater to macho style and sadomasochistic taste. Along with some bathhouses, sex-gadget shops, magazines and private clubs, they make an increasingly visible subculture in the gay world. That leather fringe is now also visible on movie screens, as the backdrop for a film that has been denounced and picketed by homosexuals: William Friedkin's Cruising, the story of a gay murderer in New York City...
...South House production, ensconced in Jonathan Star's invitingly-blue, comic-strip backdrop, succeeds because it doesn't take itself too seriously. The actors all capture the innocence that each part demands and, at the same time, deliver an untortured and easy-going rendition of their characters. Director Becky Stone leads them through the least playful scenes with a great deal of common sense. She understands that the show's primary goal is to entertain, and wields a strong supervisory hand so that Charlie Brown stays far away from its moralizing potential...
That was the gloomy backdrop last week as TIME's Board of Economists gathered in New York City for a look at how the economy is shaping up in light of Jimmy Carter's proposed new budget for fiscal year 1981. The view ahead was hardly encouraging. At almost every turn, the economists found the budget bloated with new spending, much of it camouflaged by various forms of financial and fiscal prestidigitation. They saw the economy itself remaining dangerously inflated, yet in a fundamental sense growing weaker and less productive as the year progresses. Summed up Board Member...
Once again it was time for Big Oil's profits parade. Against a backdrop of soaring gasoline costs and exploding heating-oil prices, one oil company after another last week went through the now familiar ritual of releasing eye-popping reports of annual earnings. Exxon's earnings on revenues of $84.3 billion totaled $4.3 billion, making it the most profitable corporation in American industry. Yet even as the announcements rolled in, Senate and House conferees were reaching final agreement on a compromise over a key aspect of Jimmy Carter's nine-month-old call for a windfall...