In front of this backdrop, the recent right-wing agitation of Thüringen's NPD about "Vietnamese drug mafias" seems even more bigoted.
"I've never been anywhere like it," said the 23-year-old from Taunton, who has played most of his cricket in front of the gentler backdrop of the Quantocks.
On cable TV, Mr. Clinton's presence in front of the blue backdrop with the White House logo was familiar, as were the wagging finger and the occasional bitten lip.
The New York audience colonized Radio City Music Hall, but Mr. Springsteen performed outdoors in front of the cosmic backdrop of the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History.
In the mid 1950's, he was host of an interview show called "Night Beat," which featured close-ups of Mr. Wallace grilling guests as dramatically lit plumes of smoke wafted in front of the black backdrop.
The highlight of the open-air Nutmeg performance was its "Sleeping Beauty" Garland Dance, with 12 white-dressed women bearing garlands and 6 men in gray making a changing series of designs and phrases in front of the ravishing backdrop of the Berkshires.
Still, for the most part, the speech represented a recapitulation of what he been saying for much of the past nine months, although it came in front of the elaborate backdrop of the docked carrier Yorktown and 1,000 miles from his Boston home.
