Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...times during "City Lights" the dramatic cliches that Chaplin habitually used become apparent. But Chaplin's superb pantomime seldom allows the plot to become any more, important than a background. A drunken Millionaire befriends Chaplin, and then tosses him aside when he becomes sober; a blind Flower-girl takes him for a "gentleman," and falls in love with him. That is the basis of the plot...
This is the third in a series of stories orienting the University against a war background. The first two articles, covering leftwing clubs and faculty views on the Far East, appeared in the CRIMSON'S registration Issues...
...thermocouple buried in the fur of her thorax. They found that it might be as much as 11° above the temperature of the surroundings. Since all warm objects radiate in the infrared, the conclusion was that a hot-blooded female moth "must literally 'shine' against a background of cool forest objects...
...Sleeping City (Universal-International) uses Manhattan's vast, much-filmed Bellevue Hospital as the real background of a fanciful tale about a detective (Richard Conte) who poses as an interne. Detective Conte, who has had a couple of years of medical school and some service with the Army medics, gets permission to practice on the patients so that he can track down a killer in the hospital...
...additional feature of the show is the pending extension of WHRB's coverage to include the Mallinkrodt Chemical Laboratories, so that lab students may experiment to a musical background...