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Every day the coast looked the same, as though we had not moved; but we passed various places--trading places--with names like Gran' Bassam Little Popo, names that seemed to belong to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister backcloth. The idle- ness of a passenger, my isolation amongst all these men with whom I had no point of contact, the oily and lan- guid sea, the uniform somberness of the coast, seemed to keep me away from the truth of things, within the toil of a mournful and senseless delusion.

There's also a backcloth which is used from time to time to cleverly blend 'live' scenes from the stage with shots of the group's fans from live performances back in the heyday.

Rome is the backcloth to many of these sonnets, a backcloth which is crimped, pleated, wrinkled and faded with the events of ancient history, but remains perfectly intact in the glow of the present.

It's against this backcloth of uncertainty the Lady Black Cats have to spike Spring Series winners Chelsea's guns this evening.

Andy Street was out to promote the West Midlands Combined Authority and himself on the backcloth of the games.

It once provided a backcloth to regimental reunion dinners staged at Fallings Park, Wolverhampton, until the late 1990s.

This stark divide forms the crucial backcloth against which the Holyrood election campaign will now be fought.

The stage backcloth featured two "Save Our Steel" banners and Heaton, never afraid to speak his mind, dedicated The Housemartins track The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death to the steelworkers affected by the current crisis.

If the new centre is to thrive and be a proud addition to the sporting backcloth of Huddersfield, then one and all should be included in its preparation.

A great blank void in the highway, almost graceful As it curved around unkind hills, Rising and falling as silver, spitting and slicing its Way into the distant city of satanic mills, The moon's mesmerising stare over the sleeping Landscape, Dreaming of rebirth, as stars provide a backcloth Of tinted pinpricks in its drape, As if by rote, the land, now breathless, seemingly Iridescent on airborne wings, As veil by veil, nature with humanity held benign, Can once more truly sing.

With a simple backcloth doubling up as a film projection screen, a few chairs and charpoys, the simple but powerful staging evokes the heat, the dust and the traditions of a Pakistani village.

IN a situation where the Free Syrian Army is desperate for more military help and in particular wants a no-fly zone to guarantee its take-over, and against a backcloth of former chemical attacks where UN officials have confirmed that the evidence suggests that attempts have been made to lay the blame upon Assad and deliberately provoke the West, to jump to conclusions over recent alleged events in Damascus is either extraordinarily stupid or is indeed evidence of complicity.