Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schmid went to bizarre lengths to build his image. He added 3 in. to his meager (5 ft. 3 in.) frame by stuffing rags and folded tin cans into his black leather boots. He dyed his hair raven black, wore pancake makeup, pale cream lipstick and mascara. As for the cash, which he got in a generous weekly dole from his mother, Schmid bragged to the boys that it came from smuggling cars into Mexico, to the girls that it came from women whom he had taught "100 ways to make love...
Turning from hand to hand at a crowded reception, the General pours out conversation--his lower chin ripples, his legs spread wide apart to support his heavy frame, and a broad smile sends the deep wrinkles in his face scattering under his white hair. The voice rises from a point near the bottom of his chest where the bands of medals end. "I'm one of those fellas," he says, "who always wanted to be a lawyer and never got to be. In my day bein' a lawyer meant bein' a politician--but I guess I'm pretty much...
Grim Situation. By 2 a.m., Eisenhower had been taken to the white frame Army hospital at nearby Fort Gordon, and was resting comfortably in Suite T4, a special five-room, cottage-like suit: that is always held vacant for him when he is in Augusta. A team of heart specialists was summoned, including Dr. Thomas Mattingly of Washington, who had treated Ike in 1955. Mattingly and Ike's son John were whisked down to Georgia in a White House JetStar...
Lederer also criticized the press's coverage of Asia. American journalists, he said, are handicapped by a European frame of reference and an interest in only sensational developments...
Back from the Brink. But for all his relative youth, Gottfried brings to his reviews a vital knowledge of the theater's past and an alertness to the world around him. Says he: "I have to have the largest possible working frame of reference. I have to know about jazz, Viet Nam, what's going on in Washington, the experimentation and adventures in tonality. If Baldwin or LeRoi Jones uses Harlem argot, I've got to know what it means." His familiarity with music and dance enables him to discuss a musical from book through choreography...