On Monday, Mr. Perry stood on a temporary dais against a backdrop of American and Texas flags and heavy machinery intended to underscore his focus on jobs and the state's economy and faced a friendly crowd of longtime supporters and employees of Holt Cat, a Caterpillar dealership.
At 10 45 a.m., as the canyonlike trade center foundation reverberated with the bass of Morris Robinson of the Metropolitan Opera singing "God Bless America," the 20-ton block was hoisted into a temporary position as a photo backdrop, sitting on heavy timber supports atop a concrete pedestal within a shallow 300-square-foot pit.
A married couple, one a writer, the other a proof-reader, rent a small house in the corner of a garden containing a larger property; but the arrangement is temporary, and set against a backdrop of rising house prices and economic insecurity.
Early this summer, Sadler's Wells built a temporary hotel-cum-performance space against the backdrop of a Victorian ironwork gas holder near King's Cross, and will this month be programming a participatory dance project in a street near the theatre.
Like any good commercial portraitist, Keïta arranged everything, including his subjects, to give those subjects overriding importance within the frame, to make them the absolute center of a temporary universe, assertively dominating the shallow space before the backdrop.
Kids dart in and out of the water squealing with happiness, delighting in the thrill of the temporary cool, while mini rainbows rise up to the backdrop of concrete buildings and fire escapes.
For indoor activities, you can set up a photo booth (all you need is a camera, a stand, a backdrop, and props), white elephant gift exchange, or a station for temporary tattoos.[2].
Hundreds of millions more are expected to watch on television around the world, and dozens of temporary studios, filled with presenters speaking dozens of languages, have been built against the backdrop of a floodlit Buckingham Palace.
Against this backdrop, the U.S. House of Representatives' recent resolution urging for the creation of a temporary UN criminal tribunal for Syria is a worrisome departure from American leadership in the field.
Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard and allow him to ask heavenly whodunit questions like: "Have you ever in your life suffered from temporary amnesia?" For both Baroness James and her detective, St. Anselm's certainly makes a more felicitous backdrop than the more ponderous and sour judicial backdrop for Dalgliesh's last outing, "A Certain Justice".
