Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much since then, but there are more of them, and their accessories have improved considerably. Photographic emulsions are faster, permitting pictures to be taken with shorter exposures and less blurring. Some astronomers plan to use motion picture film this summer, taking thousands of pictures. Their great hope: that one frame at least will catch Mars when it is not jiggling, and show some of its detail unblurred...
...each of these cinematic clichés appears to be placed in the very faintest of mocking quotation marks. Is it sex on the beach they want? Huston crams the frame so full of Gina fore and Jennifer aft that it looks like a wish-you-were-here postcard from Coney Island. The rifled dispatch case? When the four villains rummage through the Englishman's box, they find nothing but a letter to a minor colonial official and a hot water bottle−and are humiliatingly caught in the act to boot...
Black-bearded, with a gold earring in his pierced right ear and gold bangles jangling at his wrists, the man who called himself Ronald Chesney looked every inch the pirate he claimed to be. He habitually arrayed his strapping, 6-ft. 1-in. frame in the generously sweeping gestures of the quarterdeck, and boasted homerically of his vast appetites for food, drink and women. When asked his profession, "Old Ches" would reply with a huge guffaw: "Smuggling." Men and women in all walks of life fell easy prey to Ches's flamboyant charms, and after failing...
Last week Fuad Serag el Din sat before the bar of justice in a Cairo court, smoking cigarettes instead of cigars, his expensive suit bagging a little on his thinning frame. He was on trial for his life on nine charges of misusing his powerful position in the Wafd and in the government...
...running according to schedule on the afternoon following his first exam. Mockmouse had surrounded himself in this sanctum with the material necessary to atone for three months of leisure. Late into the night he had bent his pudgy frame over Sanskrit 109. Then at four a.m. he had given up and gone...