Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left represents Victory and Death, the soldier in the center clasping Victory in his right arm and Death in his left. The mural on the right represents the coming of the Americans to Europe. The woman with the blue gown in the foreground symbolizes France, while the woman behind her with the broken sword represents Belgium, and the third woman, with the helm, Britain...
...four policemen are seen beating one man. One strikes him horizontally across the face, using his club as he would a baseball bat. Another crashes it down on top of his head, and still another is whipping him across the back. . . . In one such scene, directly in the foreground, a policeman gives the fallen man a final smash on the head before moving on to the next...
...foreground appears the bronze gate giving access to the enclosure reserved for counsel. In their favorite and ill-assorted chairs, the Justices relax in characteristic attitudes. At the left Justice Roberts, whose recent swing to the liberals has resulted in a series of decisions upholding the New Deal, pays close attention to the white-haired attorney (centre) arguing before the Court. Next comes conservative Justice Butler, hunched in his little chair studying a document. Liberal Justice Brandeis, 80, most ancient member of the Court, looks gauntly on. Conservative Justice Van Devanter, hearing one of his last cases, has his fingers...
...scene is a movie screen. After several flashes of main titles, names of producers, photographers, men who record, direct, edit, there is heard the mellifluous voice of an unseen commentator. A slow fade-in on a bathroom--small, title less, and complete. Five little tots pile into the foreground...
...Brothers Benno, Leo, Marco & Emil Scheiner, fresh from Europe, Artist de Chirico had fashioned a twelve-foot mural. A curly-headed youth in a collar much too big for him and full evening dress with swooping tails, occupies the right foreground. In the middle distance are a couple of characteristic de Chirico broken columns and an even more typical roly-poly, curly-tailed, prancing de Chirico horse, on which is mounted a man in a pink coat. Other figures seen are clothed in sack suits. "It took me about a week," said Artist de Chirico at last week...