It's certainly tense, and the 1973 backdrop is effectively captured by the design team.
Against this picture postcard summer backdrop, the guests also buzzed -- quietly -- about Miss Snow's triumph over grief.
Bedecked with enormous digital billboards, a huge television screen and a "zipper" of electronic headlines, it is the world's most familiar New Year's Eve backdrop.
In contrast to the Lincoln Road Mall, Bal Harbour Shops on Collins Avenue is a place that looks like a 1980s backdrop to Dynasty.
Nearby, in a section dominated by a 1969 re-creation of Léger's immense 1922 backdrop in yellow and orange for the Swedish Ballet's production "Skating Rink," you'll find costume and stage designs by Exter.
The main party, the United Malays National Organisation, has been in office since independence in 1957.This backdrop explains why the regular boundary delineation that the election commission embarked upon earlier this year has become so important.
For a 2004 sequel, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the game relocated to three interconnected cities based on Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas, against a 1990s backdrop of gangsta rap and gang violence.
It's the CBS quality-control bargain: "Vegas" won't be a wreck like NBC's "Playboy Club" last season (to pick another show that tried to capitalize on a swinging 1960s backdrop), but the chances that its storytelling will be out of the ordinary are reduced.
And yet, the 1960s backdrop also gave Mad Men its power, because we watch the myths of Don Draper and the myths of American unravel in tandem.
Luhrmann creates vivid 1920s backdrops behind all this: faintly preposterous and yet undeniably lively: all-singing, all-dancing, all-greenscreening effects work, and Jay-Z's music is audacious and exhilarating.
