The authors, who together sell millions of books, came to Malta at the invitation of the Malta Tourism Authority, which is now hoping that they will return home and help promote the Maltese islands in the as-yet-untapped US market by using the archipelago as a backdrop in their new thrillers.
But, by and large, MMP was read against a backdrop in which a religious basis for ethics had been discredited.
As a Backdrop, In Silhouette, Or for Comfort BLACK forms a backdrop, top, for vintage fashion photographs and illustrations collected by Michael Berkowitz.
The stage floor was a rotating platform divided in two by a backdrop curtain, so that while one group was playing the next could be warming up.
She delivered her remarks in a church basement, framed by a backdrop that said, "More Choices for Parents".
In this rousingly pell-mell début novel, the tender arc of a bildungsroman is nearly squelched by a backdrop of epic family farce.
A trio, Aesha Ash flanked by Faye Arthurs and Carla Körbes, opens the work against Mark Stanley's blue lighting on a backdrop hemmed in by graduated black panels on both sides.
I was staying at the Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, a charming, almost entirely wooden retreat (even the phones are made of the stuff) overlooked by a dramatic mountain backdrop in the Tirol.
Once inside the Grand Palais on the day of the show, guests found themselves transported from the leaden skies and frenetic streets of Paris to a blissed-out, spa-like stage set, with a painted blue sky lit by floodlights and a backdrop of trees in full leaf.
Seated side by side against a white backdrop in several videos, they gesticulate and shout back and forth names and phrases of political figures in rhythmic, comedic crescendo: "Marx!" "Maaao!" Marx!" Maaaaaooo!" "Hitler!" "Maaaaaoooo!" "Kropotkin!!!!" It is funnier than it sounds.
