Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original. They then went over the reproductions with charcoal, smudging a bit here, rubbing a bit there. They went over the signatures in pencil, even reproduced two tiny fungus growths that appeared in the original. As a final touch, they placed one of the forgeries in the handsome frame and mat belonging to the original...
Much of what Robbrts says has its validity. There is a tendency on the part of most people to sloganize, to use catchwords. Some groups use these to inflame the emotions and to obscure the issues. But slogans can also be used to provide a frame of reference to a discussion, as well as for propagandization. The "better Red than dead" question is a valid one. It relates to fundamental ideals. Yet a discussion of this issue certainly does not exclude the possibility that an alternative course does exist. In fact, most conservatives will be willing to argue that...
...ROBERTS REPLIES: Indeed, slogans such as "Better Red Than Dead" could possibly provide a "frame of reference to a discussion" of world problems. But anyone who has heard Barry Goldwater bring an audience to its feet by saying "We aren't going to let those Russians push us around" tends to doubt that today's far right is ready to abjure its favorite, and most effective weapon...
...both hands thumping on the counsel table or the jury-box railing. Once, demonstrating a murder scene, he lay flat on the courtroom floor and continued his oration from that position. When he defended Stripper Lili St. Cyr on an indecent-exposure charge, he concealed his own paunchy frame in the allegedly diaphanous towel that had covered her on the night in question, so convulsing the jury that the case was laughed out of court. In his desk drawer he kept Lili's black lace panties as a trophy of the victory...
...Innocenti, then a small-time maker of steel pipe in Milan, bumped his head on a wooden scaffolding. This, in Da Vinci style, led him to develop the lightweight steel scaffolds now standard the world over. After the war, he bent his tubes into a motor scooter frame and, with his Lambretta, rode the crest of Italy's pent-up demand for cheap transportation. Next, spotting Italian industry's growing need for tools, he began producing heavy machinery and giant electric steelmaking furnaces. Recently, to keep up with the middle-class Italian's desire to graduate from...