Parachutes cascade slowly to the ground, soldiers move in gauzy stop-action, lyrical music floats in the background, and HBO's expensive, enormous miniseries about an American parachute unit in World War II gets off to a disheartening start.
"You get mixed-race couples floating in the background or even right in the front, but the realities of what these people must be going through is left well alone".
Gone are the suggestive and supposedly subliminal images of campaigns past, as when Mr. Huckabee caused a stir in 2007 after releasing a commercial that appeared to show a cross floating in the background.
It's foggy and layered, a really detailed fantasy, with Aaron Robinson's finger-picked acoustic guitars up front, reverbed steel guitar floating in the background and lots of malleted cymbals.
MEG BAIRD A young Philadelphia folkie who helped found the band Embers, Meg Baird now makes her own quiet, super-evocative acoustic records; "Seasons on Earth" suggests English bucolia and free-form, late-night '70s radio, with careful fingerpicking, multitracked soprano vocals and the sound of a pedal-steel guitar floating in the background.
That photograph features a power line dividing the sky between a tree in the foreground and clouds floating in the background.
Bereaved folk would sit for their portraits, and through a double exposure or some similarly simple process the photographer would create a second, semi-transparent image of a second figure, usually floating in the background.
The channel is brisk, brightly colored; shiny textures continually float around in the background.
"You have the dynamic characters who stand out and the static characters who just float around in the background.
Cloyingly sentimental poetry by Ryoichi Wago (read by Kyoka Suzuki) peppers the childlike narrative, while paintings of cherry blossoms float serenely in the background.
