Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stella protested in an urgent letter to the editor: "My paintings are what I do, not what I omit. In fact I paint black stripes about 2½ inches wide. Therefore the unpainted white spaces between them are not the stripes but what you call the 'background...
...stories in this new collection deal with Whitest Africa. Some blacks do appear, but only to serve meals, provide background music or fetch and carry...
Fiscal responsibility was more than a nostalgic, negative notion with Ike. He saw it as the basis of a positive philosophy of government. Against the background of the New and Fair Deals, with their momentum toward more Government spending and control, Ike's philosophy was as radical as it was conservative. He explained it best in a little-noticed 1959 speech to representatives of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, gathered in Washington to holler it up for continued Government subsidy of rural electrification...
Black Orpheus (French). Winner of the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes, this wildly beautiful adaptation of the old legend is made new and vital by an unknown cast, the brilliant direction of Marcel Camus and a Brazilian tropical background...