Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...plying her needle. Last week she summoned reporters to see the result. A carpet measuring nearly-seven by ten feet, it consisted of twelve panels in gros point and a not-quite-finished floral border. Each panel bore a bright Victorian design of birds and flowers on a beige background...
...possession of Hollywood, but the College got into the act in fine style. Ivy Films, post-war undergraduate organization, finished its first production and sold out the University Theatre for a special world promiere. Metro-Goldwya-Mayor kept a star and production crew in the Yard four days taking background shots for a murder mystery "semi-documentary" featuring the Medical School's Department of Legal Medicine...
...intoxicating background of a 200-proof, Ansco-color Paris, some superior acting, and a thrilling interpretation of George Simenon's inscrutable Inspector Maigret, place "The Man on the Eiffel Tower" among Hollywood's best all-time mysteries...
...story and printed it, although such discoveries are on the Atomic Energy Commission's restricted list. But once the news of No. 97 was out, the University of California nastily conferred with AEC and issued a guarded statement. After "four years' work in which the necessary background information of both the chemical and nuclear properties of the heavy elements [were] investigated and systematized . . . extremely small amounts of the new element were made on the 60-inch cyclotron of the Crocker Radiation Laboratory . . . Details concerning how the new isotope was made and its properties are not available, but theoretical...
Then, intense little Dancer Graham, 47, set about pondering "why I should appear on a stage with a symphony orchestra in the background instead of in the pit." She decided to compose herself a solo on the story, from the fourth book of the Apocrypha, of Judith, who delivered the Israelites from the siege of Nebuchadnezzar by charming his chief general, Holofernes, and then lopping off his head. Composer Schuman set to work on a score...