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The dominant theme of the changes is foregrounding what the paper calls "mixed mode" or— Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
IMAGINING RECOVERY ideas competition, a venture dedicated to foregrounding the contributions that designers could make by being present throughout the policy making and legislative processes associated with the America economic recovery.— Serial Consign
Marx concludes his discussion of price - and effects the transition to the next function, money as a means of circulation - by foregrounding the precariousness of price, as a notational measure of commodity value.— Roughtheory.org
Plot-wise, it's a conventional giallo revolving around Argento's usual obsessions of memory, displacement and gender identity, but stylistically it shows him beginning to take greater risks, foregrounding unusual imagery often at the expense of the plot.— DVD Times
The role of Nina is not exactly a stretch for her, given how often she was called upon to play frosty, deranged femme fatales in Italian films of this vintage, but the casting is perfect, playing on her androgynous looks and foregrounding her as a "wronged woman" in the classic Argento tradition.— DVD Times

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