Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frame is more magnificent and glittering than ever, but the picture inside is shallow, unrewarding and in places even tawdry...
...first measure, a program of restricted home-rule for Algeria called a frame work law, was approved by an official count...
Fats Domino, a chubby torpedo with the hands of a rake and the voice of a raspy chain saw, deposited his 300-pound frame at the piano and began to play. They turned on the house-lights. Fats, in a red silk toga, had been known to inspire hysteria...
Besides barking up a flock of man-sights-dog stories, Muttnik pointed the press to such offbeaters as the U.P.'s breathless account of an Illinois housewife whose metal bed frame somehow picked up the satellite beep ("Three shorts and one long, like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony"). Editors strove heroically for local angles. Hearst's New York Journal-American-which let its sleeping anti-vivisectionism lie-tracked down a canine psychologist who reassured animal lovers: "This dog is happy to be part of something important...
...story is about a small town Oklahoma family of the 1920's. Rubin Flood is losing his job and getting to feel left behind by the world. His wife, Cora, argues with him about all the traditional things; their first act fight and third act reconciliation frame the play. They have an engaging son, Sonny, who hates people and collects pictures of movie stars, and a teen-age daughter, Reenie, who is afraid to be social. Cora's sister, Lottie, and Lottie's husband turn out to be rather joyless, too, under her veneer of exhilaration and his of complacency...