Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White's The Cage, set in an extravagantly funny frame of tangled step-ladders and window-casings, concerns an encounter between a stranger and the residents of a thoroughly inhabited apartment house. The stranger has assumed responsibility for the continued existence of a squirrel, who has a careless habit of jumping off the apartment roof--always into the stranger's arms...
...Finnish stories, and it manages to achieve a vaguely Finnish atmosphere: bracing and sparse. The series of unpretentious, easily-changeable settings (designed by Robert Skinner and Lorna Kreuger) have a good deal to do with this; the backdrops for successive scenes are frankly mounted on a large picture frame, and the effect is never more Brechtian than when substantial sections look as if they were made out of old packing-crates. The folkish songs composed (or, sometimes, borrowed) by Caldwell Titcomb, and sung mostly by Johanna Linch, are also highly atmospheric. These are the familiar devices of Brecht's "Epic...
...Herter optimistic? a reporter asked. "Well," said he, "if I knew what frame of mind the other fellow was in I could answer that better." But the best new plus for the West at this early date was the frame of mind of new Secretary of State Herter. In Paris he showed a sort of genial, mellow, welcoming warmth along with known professional skill. "He knows his dossier," said a French diplomat...
...line name in the business is Paddock of California, which pioneered gunite (concrete sprayed on steel-mesh frame), the first development to bring pool prices within the reach of middle-income families. Both an equipment maker (filters, pumps) and a pool builder, Paddock was taken over in January by Refinite Corp., a small Midwest poolmaker whose aggressive president, Charles A. Spaulding Jr., has streamlined operations at Paddock. From a loss last year on sales of $7,968,905, Paddock expects to be well in the black in 1959 on sales of more than $10 million...
...land for as little as $2,000. From International Swimming Pool Corp. (1958 sales: $12 million) this year has come a line of pools built above ground. Priced from $2,995 to $4,995, the pools consist of a thin, vinyl plastic sheet stretched over a plywood-and-steel frame that is supported by a Redwood exterior. The pools, named after Company President Esther Williams, are movable...