There were stints at Daniel, Le Regence and 44, and to each he carried a fairy-tale background story of coming to New York as a refugee from Cambodia and teaching himself his trade at a roadside International House of Pancakes in Queens.
Busch's biographer Joseph Kraus saw these collections as useful additions to folklore, as Busch noted the narrative background to tales and the idiosyncrasies of storytellers.
And so this tale is background to what will be Ramadan's first public appearance in America, at a panel discussion at 7 P.M. on Thursday night, at Cooper Union in New York.
Have a funny story, or give your character a background tale.
The playwright Tim Slover thought that the true background tale of this iconic oratorio might make a nifty play.
In "The Winter's Tale" the actors' backgrounds are exploited for effect: Europeans play the urbane Sicilians, North Americans the rustic Bohemians.
Didn't it ever occur to you, my dear Curle, that I knew what I was doing in leaving the facts of my life and even of my tales in the background?
Each comes with narration and background music: "The Going to Bed Book" is read by the British Invasion singer Billy J. Kramer (a surprisingly perfect choice for bedtime); Debussy's angelic "Clair de Lune" tinkles in the background of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit".
The matter of Britain refers to stories of King Arthur and his knights, the Tristan stories, and independent tales having an English background, such as Guy of Warwick.
The account contains some of the best elegiac verse in the language, and, by setting marvelous tales against a historical background in which victory is always temporary and strife is always renewed, the poet gives the whole an elegiac cast.
