Another time I accompanied Ashok to a client's office to put a pair of Dwarf Guramies in the fish tank and to fix a picture as a backdrop for the tank.

Alemao's criticism (with some validity, even if ironical in the backdrop of his own exclusivist approach which sought compltely illegitimise the Marathi demand, in what was in is more of a caste-defined battle) was that the headline was not justified when the dialect and script used by a small minority had been given official acceptance.

Started in 1933 in the backdrop of the spread of Communism, the weekly was to reach out the working class and people at the grassroots to educate, inform and educate them on Communism vis-a-vis religion.

On this backdrop, it was really a risky attempt to start a specialized magazine, leave alone the general magazine.

You felt that the curtain of fire, purring and crackling and sending up hot sparks to meet the kind, calm stars, was only a painted backdrop; that the reports of rifles from the dark ruins came from blank cartridges, and that these trembling shopkeepers and peasants ringed in bayonets would not in a few minutes really die, but that they themselves and their homes would be restored to their wives and children.

National Geographic Society (PWH); 17Mar67; R406010. Backdrop for headlines.

Backdrop for Easter, by Nan Gilbert, pseud.

National Geographic Society (PWH); 17Mar67; R406010. Backdrop for headlines.

Backdrop for Easter, by Nan Gilbert, pseud.