Word: backgrounders
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...head after slipping. Co-workers stand nervously outside the door, waiting for news. O'Connor tries to figure out what happened while the paramedics carry the man to the ambulance--right out an alarmed emergency exit. O'Connor finishes his interviews with the alarm buzzing loudly in the background...
...Turner has command status," Clare said. "He knows his stuff, is loud and just won't take 'no' for an answer. He uses his military background to order us around and we've latched onto...
...difficult occasion of making a decent blues studio album (although the picture of the two jamming in the '60s - a Hendrix-permed Clapton, B.B. with a processed 'do - would have been worth the price of the CD by itself). There's too much going on in the background (why bring in two more guitar players?) but the song selection is judicious, wisely capitalizing on King's classic back catalog, and both veterans are in good form, trading off vocals and sharp solos with an immediacy that suggests they were actually both in the studio having fun at the same time...
...Trollope, not usually short of words, found Sydney Harbour "inexpressibly lovely." And to this day, despite some wildly irresponsible development, it is the restless heart of the city, whose inhabitants are drawn instinctively to its foreshore in moments of collective passion, to celebrate, protest or play. Regardless of their background, Sydneysiders are united in love of their harbor: its waters dissolve their separate identities and reflect a common image; it is both solvent and balm, mixing disparate peoples and smoothing over their differences. Its own life grows richer: as industry becomes more environmentally enlightened, the harbor's waters have improved...
...evidence on each side of the issue. Alex Castellanos, the author of the ad, was well known to everyone as a tough, mean message masseur. "RATS" was perfectly framed in the screen, while the other letters in the special effect bounced randomly across the screen to the beat of background music. On the other side of the argument the case was made that it was a pretty lame gambit, lacking such art that it must be a mistake...