So Mr. Osder and his editor, Nels Bangerter, made a decision: Fashion "Let the Fire Burn," due out Wednesday, completely from archival footage — the backbone of historical documentary, the lifeblood of filmmakers like Ken Burns and Stanley Nelson and programs like "American Masters," but hardly the stuff of an entire movie.
Winemaking blends art with science and builds on a solid backbone of historical tradition; it is also very much a trade-oriented field.
But while Maines's historical research forms the backbone of the Antique Vibrator Museum, Dr. Queen is the one who fleshes things out.
As Jed Perl, an American art critic, put it in The New Republic, "Chronology, that backbone of the historical sense, has been collapsed into some kind of postmodern time warp".
Repeated banishment to Egypt, Assyria, Babylon and return are the backbone of the Jewish historical narrative.
Potential weaknesses of this study include the modest sample size, which was initially designed to determine the CR rate of HDMP/ofatumumab compared with historical controls using the HDMP-therapy backbone.
DNA samples are not accepted in lieu of standard herbarium vouchers because morphological traits remain the backbone of traditional species identification criteria and historical comparisons.
During this period, Chinese ethnology entered its golden age, with the accumulation of massive ethnographic data while serving as the backbone in an unprecedented government-sponsored ethnic identification and social and historical investigation of ethnic minorities.
In fact, the cumulative effects of artifacts can explain the entire backbone of relationships among major eukaryotic lineages, and no signal from an historical pattern of relationships appears to be required.
No, it is explained mostly by the historical anomaly whereby our American health care system has evolved on a rigid fee-for-service backbone.
