Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles industrial designer who had gone into the picture-frame business found himself with a lot of extra frame slats and decided to make doll furniture with them. Thanks to the doll furniture, Elliot Handler and his wife Ruth cleared $30,000 on sales of $100,000 that year. The Handlers have never quite matched that profit margin, but in the 17 years since then their Mattel, Inc. has joined the front rank of U.S. toymakers. Last year Mattel earned $4,000,000 on sales of $49,400,000. And in the first half of this year, the Handlers happily...
Woods, who was hand-picked for the job by Black himself, has the same sort of deceptively casual air as Black. He likes to drape his long, thin frame over a chair in his First Boston office, fix visitors with his liquid brown eyes and invite them to "walk around the problem." The walk is friendly and pleasant, but when it is over, the visitors usually find themselves accepting Woods's view...
...before his TV speech, the President sent Barnett a telegram demanding to know "this evening" whether the Governor and his officials would "cooperate in maintaining law and order." Barnett telephoned the President at 7:30 p.m. and evasively asked for more time to frame his reply. At 10 p.m., he called Attorney General Kennedy and said that he could not agree to the President's demands...
...total of 30 runners stranded high and dry on the bases. The Dodgers, shut out in their last two regular-season games, kept right on holding their breaths and bats for 14 agonizing playoff innings-and then, with a mighty sigh, blew across seven runs in a single frame...
...their faces are citified, their bodies are city-fed. And the farm is obviously not a working farm: the Japanese peasant is notoriously clean, but this island is so clean that even a fly would starve. Esthetically, too, the film is not natural. It strains for greatness in every frame-the strain shows but the greatness doesn't. Even so, The Island is an impressive work of artifice, surely one of the best movies ever made for less than $20,000. Purists will praise Director Kaneto Shindo (Children of Hiroshima) for his skill at telling a story without words...