Outraged by Sales's original Vanity Fair article, one of these girls phones her in a hysterical rage, with her mother screaming in the background – only to repeat the message immediately, presumably for another take in what becomes a celebrated episode of their TV show.
"Jo Baker fully inhabits the lives of her characters, and in Longbourn they are ones who previously existed in the background only," said Focus Features' James Schamus.
It is on the north side of 32nd Street, just to the west of the Red Roof, and hotel guests there can take in the sight of the Empire State Building looming in the background only a block away.
Sometimes, things that are way off in the background only begin to reveal themselves after endless rewatchings.
There are no crying birds in the background, only two guitars, a bass, drums, and a droning organ.
Then the spot shows a video of a gray-haired couple walking together, smiling, with trees in the background, only to cut abruptly to an elderly woman alone, looking somberly into the camera.
Perhaps hoping that the rich material he industriously compiled from memoirs, newspapers and secondary sources can itself tell the story, Green, a labor historian at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, stays in the background, only rarely providing synthesis, pacing or interpretation.
Ms. Lindsey wasn't the star of this bill — that was Craig Morgan, whose fifth album, "That's Why" (BNA), was released last month — but she proved the exception to the rule that songwriters toil in the background only to make singers look great.
It's present and available in the background, only activating when it makes sense to you.
Yes, it's another one of those "invisible apps" – that is, apps that operate in the background, only kicking off when needed.
