He has designed a matching backdrop and costumes of points of color on white for Mr. Cunningham's Summerspace, so that dancers and background merge into a shimmering unity.

This unique sound is the backdrop for the band's message of dignity for indigenous people, all of humanity, and Earth.

album title ", writes Greg Kot in The Chicago Tribune ( published September 11, 2001 ), " the myths, mysteries and folklore of the South as a backdrop for one of the finest roots rock albums ever made.

The Coast Mountains and the Inside Passage's many inlets provide some of British Columbia's renowned and spectacular scenery, which forms the backdrop and context for a growing outdoor adventure and ecotourism industry.

Against this backdrop, American exporters are finding quite favorable overseas markets for their products and U. S. consumers are responding to their general housing slowdown by slowing their spending.

Munch also began to favor a shallow pictorial space and a minimal backdrop for his frontal figures.

The language was spoken and sung verse, the performance area included a circular floor or orchestra where the chorus could dance, a space for actors ( three speaking actors in Euripides's time ), a backdrop or skene and some special effects: an ekkyklema ( used to bring the skene's ' indoors ' outdoors ) and a mechane ( used to lift actors in the air, as in deus ex machina ).

These two verses form a backdrop for the rest of the book.

Exterior shots of guests arriving for the funeral were filmed in Thurrock, Essex overlooking the River Thames with the backdrop of the Dartford River Crossing and at stately homes in Bedfordshire ( Luton Hoo for wedding two reception ) and Hampshire.

The Hollywood on the Tiber phenomenon of 1958 in which American studios profited from the cheap studio labour available in Rome provided the backdrop for photojournalists to steal shots of celebrities on the via Veneto.

" Undeterred, Guedel explained that the quiz would be only a backdrop for Groucho's interviews of people, and the storm of ad-libbing that they would elicit.

This materialistic mysticism sets the backdrop for a majority of the motifs in Heart of Darkness.

In some works, as in large parts of Jordan's The Wheel of Time, the struggle between good and evil is mainly used as a backdrop for more intricate conflicts of interest, such as conflicts between different factions formally on the same side in the good vs. evil conflict.

The area and the people inspired him and provided the backdrop for his best-known short stories, the Oom Schalk Lourens series ( featuring an older character named " Oom Schalk Lourens "), and the Voorkamer sketches.

*: 1950s: Growing concern in the US for a " science gap " with the USSR motivated, encouraged funding and provided a backdrop for mechanized literature searching systems ( Allen Kent et al.

In 2005, against the backdrop of renewed UK government interest in nuclear power, Lovelock again publicly announced his support for nuclear energy, stating, " I am a Green, and I entreat my friends in the movement to drop their wrongheaded objection to nuclear energy ".

Against the backdrop of the historical sufferings of the Nepalese people and the enormous human cost of the last ten years of violent conflict, the MOU, which proposes a peaceful transition through an elected constituent assembly, created an acceptable formula for a united movement for democracy.

The family lived in two popular districts of the town, in el-Gamaleyya, from where they moved in 1924 to el-Abbaseyya, then a new Cairo suburb ; both provided the backdrop for many of Mahfouz's writings.

Details of Pytheas ’ voyage also serve as the backdrop for Chapter I of Poul Anderson ’ s science fiction novel, The Boat of a Million Years.

Italian writer Luigi Malerba used the confusion among the leaders of the Catholic Church, which was created by Adrian's unexpected election, as a backdrop for his 1995 novel, Le maschere ( The Masks ), about the struggle between two Roman cardinals for a well-endowed church office.

The plaza includes a sculpture of the university's seal, set against a backdrop of a seven-jet fountain and an equestrian statue, entitled Riding Into the Sunset.

The Ministry responsible is at present appearing to issue conflicting messages on the one hand declaring that Apap's fountain has great value as a public art work which will be retained in spite of its repositioning very close to its original location and on the other hand it wants to place it in a garden connected to the new park of pine trees where its green backdrop the ministry insists, will complement the watery fantasy of these " telamonic sea creatures, part man part fish .” The artistic community fear that the Italian pines that were imported at great cost instead of a backdrop will in reality shield the fountain from view, in effect hiding it. The fountain in its original location, is rightly located as a landmark and work of art.

Known simply as " The Waterwall " or even still as the " Transco Waterwall " to locals, the fountain is a popular backdrop for tourists and locals alike.

A checkered backdrop is often used to signal transparency.

It is characterised by " eerie dissonances providing a backdrop to sounds of nature and lonely melodies " ( Schneider 2006, 84 ).

The movie is the story of an adulturous affair placed against the backdrop of Haiti during the tumultuous dictatorship of François Duvalier, ( known as " Papa Doc ").

( Landmass in the backdrop is the Bari region of Somalia ).

Now, all that lasts is the decaying shell of a once thriving dwelling .” Thus, without the decrepit backdrop to initiate the events, the Gothic Novel would not exist.

Slavery in Gone with the Wind is a backdrop to a story that is essentially about other things.

Hee Haw is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop.

It is in this existential crisis, shown against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, that we see the differences between one culture, personified by Harold, handling a meaningless war, while another has experienced and lived beyond a war that produced a crisis of meaning.

The college is set against the backdrop of Cayuga Lake, Cornell University, and several waterfalls and gorges.

In the game, the world we see is an Illusion which is unravelling to reveal an even darker backdrop which in the game is called Reality.

The cosmological backdrop of Kult is largely based on the Tree of Life from kabbalistic lore, the Sephirot and the Qliphoth.

Many of these developments were against the backdrop of improvements in both econometrics, that is the ability to measure prices and changes in goods and services, as well as their aggregate quantities, and in the creation of macroeconomics, or the study of whole economies.

All of this is set against a backdrop of massive profits and wealth being produced within the corporate sector.

When he rewrote Radio Free Albemuth as VALIS beforehand, Dick incorporated the plotline of Radio Free Albemuth as a backdrop film ( also titled VALIS ) that recapitulated the central theological and existential concerns of his novel as a mise en abyme-that is, a miniature copy of his central preoccupations at this stage of his literary career, common to both works.

It is this emphasis on becoming attentive to the social backdrop against which language is rendered intelligible that explains Wittgenstein's elliptical comment that " If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

In his stories, Green Town is a symbol of safety and home, which is often juxtaposed as a contrasting backdrop to tales of fantasy or menace.

This opera uses Sir Gawain as the backdrop but refocuses the story on Gawain's female squire, Gwyneth, who is trying to become a knight.

The second dream sequence is an astral environment with a backdrop of stars ", remembers Heinrichs.