Word: backgrounders
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...reaches completion, this will be the longest, most sophisticated work of historical fiction in the medium. Lutes has a natural, clean, European drawing style, much like Hergé's "Tintin." This first volume follows a young woman art student who meets a weary leftist journalist against a background of boiling politics and decadence. Only eight issues in, and already this book has the density of the best novels...
...subjects. He appropriated their spirit. He went along collecting strange artifacts-he once photographed himself in Algerian costume. The entrance to the exhibit showcases a series of self-portraits in which a fully clothed Day is shown on a dark field, with a faint nude black man in the background. Day seems to be audaciously claiming the "foreign" spirit...
...making of the instruments and collectors' items like John Lennon's first guitar, a guitar with six sets of strings and even an inflatable electric guitar. For die-hard rock-and-roll fans and history buffs, this room is a treasure trove, but the viewer without that background who comes to see an art show might walk away disappointed...
...prison guard and a waitress--neither of whom advanced beyond the eighth grade--Rudenstine's background belies the common conception of Harvard as rich and elitist...
...know if that will have a noticeable effect, that now suddenly players might have the goal of becoming a professional athlete," Wheaton said. "That's a long way down the road, until the league grows very strong. Women's soccer is from the socioeconomic background where it's hard to convince people to come out of school...