Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is no easy trick for an extrovert-plus, but he performs it creditably. As he sings, his large bony fingers grope for confidence among the spotlight's motes, or nervously smooth the pockets of his costly dinner-suit; his gangling frame folds into the diffident attitudes of a lady companion anxious to please an exacting employer: in approaching a high note he is the schoolboy cricketer praying to hold a vital catch...
...HYRC had called the proposed Forum the product of "dewy-eyed optimism" with "no practical reason" for its formation. A political club built around a national party, the Republican group argued, should operate "in a completely independent and distinct frame of reference...
...Obesity and overweight are too often confused: a man may be overweight with muscle without being obese, or may have flabby fat on a small frame without being overweight. Without condoning "gross obesity," Dr. Keys could assign it "no more than some aggravating or accelerating influence...
...Knife, from first frame to last, arches with tension like a drawn bow. The Odets script, adapted for the screen by James Poe, has been beautifully grained and shaped by two fine craftsmen, and it takes every ounce of strain that Producer-Director Robert Aldrich leans against it. Aldrich gets striking performances from his actors. Jack Palance, a gifted portrayer of brute instinct, is miscast as a man whose problem is the loss of his instincts, but his intensity and sincerity propel the action vigorously even where they confuse its motives. Ida Lupino, as always, is a capable trouper; Shelley...
...week from today Connolly will celebrate his 87th birthday. His red hair has turned soft white, and his slim frame is slightly stooped and rather frail. A charley horse restricts him largely to his apartment on Brookline Street, but not his acuteness...