Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Garfein and Willingham present only the bare facts of the story and refuse to construct any sort of frame of reference which would help in interpreting it. While a pure thriller in many ways, the film cries out for interpretation. This necessity, however, does not in any way detract from the quality of the picture, but in fact adds an extra dimension to its interest. If I may still be permitted to voice a bit of sociological jargon of my own, the story of De Paris seems at bottom to represent the conflict between a very tightly organized society...
...whole era. The man was Chambers-admitted longtime Communist who became a crusading anti-Communist (and senior editor of TIME), and denounced Hiss during the tumultuous hearings of the House Committee on un-American Activities in 1948. Chambers' performance, Hiss says, was a deliberate effort to frame an innocent man he had known only briefly and casually a dozen years before-for reasons that Hiss is still at a loss to explain. The House Committee, Hiss goes on, had a "political stake" in finding a Communist spy; the FBI, investigating the case, became "overzealous." The federal grand jury that...
...Faulkner like the Compsons finds meaning in the past, he is not concerned with the Snopeses who find a very limited type of truth in the future. The Snopeses may succeed in their own terms, but in Faulkner's frame of reference they have no future, no "truth...
...Crimson took the lead in the last of the first on Tom Bergantino's homer to right, but the Indians tied it in the next frame when Dom Repetto walked in a run. Repetto got the lead back in the last half with a deep, two-run triple to left, but then was caught off base...
...government witnesses, Prosecutor Crawford's streetcar was derailed. Without even hearing the defense, U.S. District Judge Royce H. Savage directed a verdict acquitting Bulloch and two other defendants. When the verdict was announced, Reporter Bulloch, 49, who had contended that vengeful racketeers and politicians had tried to frame him, quietly moved from the defendant's bench to the press table, calmly picked up his pencil and paper, and started covering the rest of the case against 17 other Oklahomans who were charged with conspiracy. Sixteen of them, including the police commissioner, police chief and six members...