Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yesterday's award is the second Pulitzer for the 36-year-old Harvard alumnus. The first came in 1955 for a series of articles Lewis did for the Washington Evening Star about a Navy captain caught in a "security" frame...
Elaine de Kooning, the amicably separated wife of the famous Willem de Kooning, is an abstract expressionist to whom portraits "have always been a passion." Her pictures are hardly the sort that a board of directors would buy to put in a frame marked, "Our Founder...
...ancestor of Don Quixote. The dear fellow is a physical coward who runs at the first hint of a fight, but later, safe in his bedroom, rips out his rapier and slaughters imaginary myriads. He is so poor he seldom eats more than twice a week-in one hilarious frame the camera wistfully observes that his chamber pot is filled with cobwebs. But he is proud. Whenever he leaves the house, he picks his teeth and smacks his lips, as though he had just finished a hearty meal. And one day he announces grandly: "In Old Castile...
Whether Burton ever does return to the theater? in more than a token way?will be determined by something considerably deeper than the fate of the liaison he has recently formed. Two little gods within his frame are warring?one that builds with sureness and power, and another that impels him, like his late companion and countryman Dylan Thomas, recklessly toward self-destruction...
...oath: "I pledge allegiance to Conrad Birdie and to the United States of America." Shrieks greet the sight of his gold lame riding habit, and when he begins to sing Honestly Sincere, even the mayor's wife folds into gatelegged collapse. Pearson's 6-ft. 3-in. frame lacks the necessary baby fat for a first-class ribbing of the plot's obvious target, but the sideburns holding up the slack in his jaws have the look of authenticity...