Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Back in New York, assessing TIME correspondents' files plus a wealth of other background material from all over the world, Bob Christopher wrapped up what he hoped was his last cover-writing task at least for a few weeks. But three in a row would be a record, and who could tell what would happen next week...
...film contains what is probably the most uproarious juxtaposition of images in the history of cinema. As the rapt Cannes audience watched the young fiancés clinch, the bedroom suddenly faded, giving way to a railroad switchyard. In closeup two train cars coupled, while locomotive pistons made background noises. The audience howled. The Japanese producers, caught with an arty touch that misfired, indignantly wondered what had happened...
Strangled Voice. Envious rivals complained that his success was due only to fabulous wealth (an estimated $800 million), a legendary name and a romantic background. Superficially they seemed right: Aly Khan was short (5 ft. 6 in.), balding, plump, and indifferent about clothes. His only physical assets were dark, liquid eyes and an almost Satanic vitality which could be refueled with as little as three hours' sleep...
...fatal to Irishmen." Moore's diagnosis lies at the heart of this exciting new novel by Gabriel Fielding, who, under his real name of Alan Barnsley, is a practicing British physician. In earlier books, Brotherly Love and In the Time of Greenbloom, Author Fielding dealt with the family background of John Blaydon, a British schoolboy, and carried him through an adolescent love affair. When the girl was brutally raped and murdered by a wandering psychopath, John's sanity was saved by Horab Green-bloom, a Jewish intellectual who is for ever on the move - mentally, physically, metaphysically...
Journey to Understanding (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Reports from five national capitals fill in the background of the summit meting. ABC presents Presidential Mission-the Summit, Sun. May 15, 4-4:40 p.m., and CBS's Eyewitness to History weighs in with its first report on Tues...