Against the feckless, content-free backdrop, who can deny the water cooler potency of Mrs. Clinton's flash of heartbreak, Barack Obama's victory speech in Iowa or John McCain's comeback?
When it is the backdrop for a free display of over 200 images of people, animals and daily life by 39 photographers from the United States and abroad.
If you are more of a free spirit stuck in a buttoned-down, rigid suit-and-tie backdrop, you diminish your odds of being happy at work.
The evening there begins with a free salsa lesson from 6 30 to 7 30, followed by dancing until 9, all against the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline, and with envious, gawking passengers in passing buses and taxis as an audience.
The central government wants to promote Shanghai as a financial capital to rival London and New York, and are setting up a free trade zone (FTZ) in the city's plush financial area, Pudong, to provide the skyscraper backdrop.
While the app is a free download and offers some content without needing to pay, there is also a subscription service — costing $3.99 per month or $35.99 per year — for access to more "exotic locations" as a backdrop for meditations.
In an independent Scotland the case for radical alternatives would be argued against a backdrop free from the needs of London as a global financial centre, from "special relationships" and from an unrealistic view of our place in the world.
Instead it shows us the vibrant backdrop of a heroic era, revealing a free-for-all joined by talents of all degrees.
It's an ugly hulk from the outside, but a beguiling Escher-like sequence of ramping terraced streets when you venture in – and of course it makes a great backdrop for free-running videos.
To make a movie, pick a scene then a backdrop.
