Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambitious girl ("she was not born for this profession") and had to be worried by him into a star contract with the Vienna State Opera and later with the Met. Debeljevic attends every one of his wife's rehearsals and performances, selects engagements that fall within the "frame" of her career and ruthlessly rejects others, helps design her personal wardrobe. He also walks the dogs (a Weimaraner and a pointer), parks the car, and always travels with her: "Someone has to carry the money. She never does. She sings, as she says, for the dog biscuits...
...vigorous if repetitive biography of the undisciplined American Conrad who lived, loved and wrote to excess, and overflows his own portrait's frame...
Vaudeville & Lampshades. Her voice today sounds like gravel dripping onto a kettledrum; her teeth have been capped four times; her tall, big-boned frame suggests the rambling form of her older brother, Dan Dailey. Their late father, manager of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, had some objections to Irene's theatrical ambitions, but neither he nor anyone else could have checked them. At eight, she was dancing in vaudeville, and at 18 she was launched in summer stock...
...strode along in his size 13 shoes, embarrassed by his 6-ft. 6-in., 240-lb. frame, carrying his eccentricities with him until fame had transformed them into legend. He seldom washed, changed his shirt or had a haircut; he could live for hours, even days, on cigarettes and coal black coffee, then eat twelve eggs, two quarts of milk and an entire loaf of bread in one breakfast. Wild-eyed and forever talking with all the intensity of his written prose, he sprayed everyone in range with reservoirs of spittle from the corners of his mouth. Some thought...
...dental surgeon mother, John Riteris, 24, was found to have kidney disease while in the Army, was discharged and went home to Milwaukee. Easily tired, always short of breath, he developed severe high blood pressure, a failing and enormously enlarged heart, "dropsy" and anemia. When his 6-ft. frame was down to 98 Ibs., doctors despaired of saving...