Word: backgrounders
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...Suddenly, some of the crew are calling for the golfer again. I scramble to get the bag again, tripping over a lounge chair in the process. I am back in the scene, though a little more in the background this time...
...from the church rafters to profess his love to her right there in the chapel. If Tsarouchas wanted his audience to understand something of Christos’ fervent love of his land and traditions, this is the material that he should have used in his plot, not as his background...
...living join with the dead, snow falls in the background and a feeling of serenity, a serenity, one might think, as comforting as that which accompanies the dead, passes over the audience. As the always-apropos Gabriel himself poses, “Where are the words that might express one’s heart?” The pseudo-answer to this rhetorical question lies in the play’s unconscious description of the audience: “They listened, they watched, and they smiled...
...mound of curly orange hair and a long orange beard look and another band member sporting a John Deere farm equipment hat, their look was a little unconventional for a hardcore metal band. If northern New England doesn’t strike you as exactly the best fitting background for a band that appears to be trying to do for New Hampshire what Lynyrd Skynyrd did for Alabama, you have to at least give them points for trying. Songs like “Granite State Destroyers” and “New Hampshire’s All Right...
...same time, very creative and on the cutting edge of music, forcing us to reevalute both the musical structures that dominate pop music, and the everyday background noise surrounding us. And sometimes it doesn’t suck. The short set format was perfect for the genre. A full set of Noise might have been horrible. Ten full sets would have been a nightmare. But in short doses, Noise can be effective without being terribly unpleasant...