Word: background
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...wars, other nations suffered as a result, and when they were allied, during long periods of history, it was scarcely to the advantage of the rest of Europe. In 1939, for example, Adolf Hitler sent his Foreign Secretary, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Moscow. As Stalin stood smiling in the background in a library in the Kremlin, Ribbentrop signed a nonaggression pact that facilitated the Russians' invasion of Finland and the annexation of the Baltic states and the Nazis' blitzkrieg against Poland that started World...
...sidewalk with him to draw some customers. "He wanted me to sit facing the traffic so people would see me and stop," Walter says. "I told him no. I'd sit facing the house." Charlie agreed, "That's O.K. People will know you by your background." Apparently not. Charlie got not a nibble...
...also a passion-play, as Bergman's intended title implies, in which psychological stereotypes act out their psychoses in vain hopes of redemption. The director concentrates on universal patterns of interaction, and thus requires only a brief background sketch for each character: Andreas Winkleman has retreated into an emotional state of non-expression after being abandoned by his wife and lives alone in a small cottage, "a prison as much as a refuge." He soon meets Anna Fromm, a widow who has fantasized her late marriage into a monolith of Truth and Happiness, despite strong indications that she actually murdered...
Nicotine. There was, however, considerable talk of their music. After a few forgettable singles, the Supremes hit it big with a tune called Where Did Our Love Go. Florence and Mary sang the background, while Diana did the lead in a voice that was equal parts coyness, sexiness, nicotine and velvet. "Baby, baby, where did our love go?" they purred together, and that little question sent them right...
...seamy side of Hollywood. Supported by S.J. Perelman, who had married his sister, West lived in the Pa-Va-Sed, a scabby little apartment hotel in the lower depths of movieland. The experience hurt his pride and damaged his health, but it gave him the boiling background for the best novel ever written about Hollywood...