Word: backgrounded
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...other category of Eames' films is the idea films. "We're not concerned here with how much background information we can provide in sixteen minutes," he said. "We're trying to provide a common experience from which a number of people could work. In a life with so many demands, especially on students, the idea film is so a good teacher could come along and work with...
...label called KKK, showing a fiery cross on a scarlet background, featured the 100 per cent Americans playing Why I am a Klansman. Today a comparable mood can be observed in Reb Rebel records whose anti-black jokes on NAACP Flight 105 reportedly sold over a million copies in the southeast...
Steeped in 19th century tradition, the story could not but end sadly, with the girl dead, the boy suddenly grown older and wiser. Even the wild poet becomes a domesticated civil servant. Turgenev published First Love in 1860, when peasant restiveness was a background rumble. It is to Schell's credit that the scenario has been propelled forward 55 years-to the eve of the October Revolution-without losing its balance. Only in the choice of background music does the director lose track of the score, alternating from Chopin to a muted rock. Turgenev needs no varnish of "relevance...
...Revue consists of Mr. and Mrs. Turner, the three lovely Ikettes, the Kings of Rhythm on horns, guitar, bass, and a drummer. The Kings of Rhythm provide a classy touch, although their potential is usually kept very much in the background. Ike's lead guitar, too, is incredibly understated, considering his brilliance. Yet such self-restraint is an outstanding feature of the Turners' consummate professionalism. Ike builds a song carefully; anything held back now will simply provide a bigger punch later. The Ikettes sing, dance, and occasionally play maracas. They are essential to the vitality of the show; their choreography...
Nothing has been proved so far against the people who are receiving a "trial by press," and contrary to the allegations made by Commissioner McNamara, none of the three ex-convicts on whose testimony all the stories are based has any revolutionary background. Bond, for example, who claims revolutionary leadership, was thrown out of SDS meetings at Brandeis by students who believed he was a police agent, because of the inconsistency of his racist and pro-war views with his posing as a revolutionary instigator...