Formerly great names like Sumitomo, Mitsui, and Mitsubishi as well as outfits less well known outside Japan like Yasuda, Furukawa and Nakajima have faded into the background on the international scene, outmaneuvered and outplayed by younger nimbler firms in Japan as well as by American and European companies.

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Each time a movie character handled or used tobacco, or even when tobacco was seen in the background, it was considered a smoking scene.

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Watching the same show with Speech Enhancement made Dame Maggie Smith's character's words louder than the background music and other sound in a scene, so we didn't have to strain to hear.

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Like pre-existing blue-screen techniques it involves filming a scene against an aquamarine blue-coloured background.

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At a time when New Yorkers routinely spot Leonardo DiCaprio in person at Manhattan's trendiest nightspots, Ms. Lewinsky's reported social life does not extend beyond a quick handshake with William Safire at the Cosmos Club--a scene that will presumably be accompanied in the movie by background music from Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians.

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In a famous scene from the film, Dylan, with Allen Ginsberg lurking in the background dressed as a rabbi, stands tossing cards with key words from the song as it plays on the soundtrack, an early music video.

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