Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blow to the defense, which had hoped to discredit detective Mark Fuhrman as racially prejudiced and dishonest. Fuhrman testified that he found a glove, which matches one found at the scene of the murders, at the Simpson estate. The defense team has implied that Fuhrman planted the glove to frame the former football star. Ito also delayed the O.J. Simpson trial by one week, to Sept...
...raft consisted simply of two massive truck inner tubes encased in a frame of iron and wood, all covered with Styrofoam. The young men, who range in age from 20 to 30, had planned this trip for weeks. To train for the adventure, each went out daily on an inner tube to fish, both at night and by day. The men did not give their names. One says he is sure they will make it to Florida. A few years ago, they would have spent a year in jail for "illegal departure" if they were picked up by Cuban patrol...
...listen. The slightly obsessive narrators of these stories make them particularly suited to out-loud readings (most of them were probably created for National Public Radio). Sedaris has a masterful ear for popular culture talk--arm-chair psychology, tabloid gossip, etc. He is particularly sensitive to that time-frame known in contemporary chit-chat as "right now"--as in "I'm really interested in underwater birthing right now," or "Right now I'm trying a lot of herbal teas," or "I 'm concentrating on me right now, just me!" "Right now" captures the magic sound of a person trying...
...absolute measurements, the Rwandan refugees filled infinitely less space than that taken up by a single explosion on Jupiter. But, paradoxically, images could not begin to convey the immensities and emormities of these settlements. The frame was too small to contain such an expanse of anguish. Photographers had to resort to visual synecdoche, hoping that a small part of the scene -- a wailing child, an emaciated mother, a pile of corpses in a freshly dug trench -- would suggest the horrors of the whole...
Kaysen's wood-frame home in Cambridge, only two blocks from Harvard Square, displays the same elegant spareness as her writing. On a table sits a copy of Cigarettes Are Sublime, an elegy to smoking written by Richard Klein. She is defiant on the subject. "Everyone should have a vice, and everybody does," she says, drawing on a Marlboro. "Immortality was never my goal...