Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...industrial states east of the Mississippi. To do that despite the Catholic bloc voting for Kennedy that showed up in primaries, Nixon will have to 1) appeal to Negroes and 2) wring a lot of votes out of his chief vote-getting advantage over Kennedy: greater foreign policy background...
...fuzzy minded conservative, Dos Passos wrote the original novels while a fuzzy-minded liberal, and the play sometimes verges on the sentimental glorification of the sordid and false that fuzzy-mindedness may produce. However, a coolly ironical detachment saves most of the script from mushiness, and provides a background for emotion-packed events that enables us to accept their content as sentiment, rather than sentimentality...
...eleven on this week's cover are Presidential Aspirant Jack Kennedy and his wife Jackie in front, flanked by his parents. Joseph and Rose, with the portrait gallery in the background showing Brother Robert-over his father's right shoulder-followed, in clockwise order, by Grandfather John ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald. Sisters Patricia Lawford, Jean Smith and Eunice Shriver. Brother Edward and Sister Rosemary...
...forth between the two, sleeping where they pleased; but the youngest child stayed with his mother. A little boy with long curls, Thomas Clayton Wolfe was not weaned until he was 3½, and slept beside his mother until he was "a great big boy." All this is background for the two main relationships in the novelist's adult life: his six-year, mother-son love affair with a married woman nearly twice his age, and his eight-year, father-son working partnership with Editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribner...
...versatile complex of latticed background panels, designed by Rouben Ter-Arutanian in 1956 and used for the dozen productions since, are gone this summer. Instead, Ter-Arutunian has encased the whole proscenium and stage within a surface of giant potato chips. This adequately serves the exotic Mediterranean Bermuda that Shakespeare specified for The Tempest; but it proves less fitting for Tweifth Night. Director Jack London, who has previously shown a penchant for gimmicking up his productions, has really gone 'round the bend this time, and must shoulder almost all the blame. I bet Shakespeare wishes he'd never added...