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The top non-local story at the Washington Post uses the down Dow as backdrop for Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's call for stronger regulation of global finance.
All this happens nightly (except Sunday) against the backdrop of the magnificently floodlit castle in an arena erected in the Esplanade.
The glittering façade of the Basilica di San Marco forms an exotic backdrop, illuminating Venice’s unique role at the crossroads of Eastern and Western culture.
The urban backdrop: Tak Fujimoto's sublimely subtle, atmospheric cinematography made Philadelphia look ancient, decadent, well-worn; rarely does an American film setting feel so saturated with the past and teeming with the footprints left by earlier generations.
It's worth remembering that Kundera's sexual parables unfold against a backdrop of totalitarian repression, whereas our own grapple with a more confusing legacy: the counterculture of the '60s and '70s.