Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more thorough Common Cause proposal required any public employee "with an economic impact other than a diminutive nature" to submit the feared financial disclosure form. In addition, the original bill required information on third party contacts, implying that lawyers would be forced to divulge the identity and background of their clients. Both of these unpopular provisions were struck from the present statute...
...little warmth toward dear, chubby old Watson? It's the execution here that is overdrawn. This Holmes at one point looks at the unsuspecting Watson with a gaze so rich in emotion and so reminiscent of Captain Von Trapp that you can almost here the Alps singing in the background. This Holmes really lusts for blood when he grasps that poor unfortunate official's throat. And this Holmes really means to save mankind, all mankind, with his impassioned plea to the powers that be at the end of the movie...
...program notes nor the staging made even the minimal attempts Ain't Misbehavin' does to educate its audience. Still, in the end there's no substitute for hearing these songs, and if they don't excite you about the life and times of their author then no amount of background information will. The staging, the dancing, the acting sometimes fitted together and sometimes missed altogether in Ellington at Eight, but where it counted--in the tunes--the performers didn't let the Duke down...
Another of Carter's despairs right now is the hardened state of the Israeli mind. In his secret moments the President has examined and re-examined his own attitudes, and he believes fervently that his background and his heart-religiously, intellectually-would never allow him to turn away from Israel. What to do? Speak out in indignation against the intransigence of Menachem Begin? Or quietly go back to Camp David and talk and wait? Even while suffering dramatic domestic political losses, Carter comes down on the side of patience-the essence of courage for these hours...
...experience in this kind of championship meet from his background at a prep school (Lawrenceville) and AAU swimmer, and consequently knows what he needs to do when he gets up on the starting blocks," Bernal explained yesterday...