Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doors unlocked at night. The quiet middle-class community may rethink such nocturnal habits after the strangling death last Tuesday of 82-year-old Mildred Stallones, a retired schoolteacher. A respected member of the community who was known for her generosity to children, Stallones was found in her old frame house. Police are still trying to determine if rape was involved. Beyond a forced entry into the house, police have little to offer: no motive, no suspects, no signs of theft...
Mark Wills was obsessed with beautiful bodies -- flesh or metal or his own. By daylight, Wills, 28, worshipped his massive 6-ft. 1-in., 270-lb. frame in the mirrors of the weight-lifting center he owned in lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania. By night, he muscled his way off dance floors and into the beds of attractive women whose names, he bragged, he rarely remembered. But Wills' true talents lay elsewhere. Once each week he would get his hands on hard bodies that never played hard-to-get -- curvaceous Camaros, sleek Cadillacs, majestic Monte Carlos -- gleaming beauties that he could...
...demands placed upon it. Against one backdrop, designer John Ruark Was able to hold three distinct scenes and a couch enclosed with curtains. The set looked as if it was made very cheaply, but with excellent skill. An upside-down garbage can became a table and the frame for the curtains looked as if it were hammered together the day before. This gave an odd look to the backdrop that matched the oddness of the setting...
Doug floors his Ford truck through a yellow light, turns sharply and then slows, carefully checking out the other cars as he cruises the largely white working-class neighborhoods of Benson. He points to a light blue, wood-frame house. Dozens of pellet holes from two shotgun blasts scar the wall on either side of the front door. In the driveway, an elderly man tinkers with a blue Chevy Caprice, which is also riddled with holes. Doug drives by slowly, confident he won't be recognized. "We did that three months ago. Monday night about...
...settle 36 class-action lawsuits by owners of GM trucks that have gas tanks mounted outside the frame, and which critics have said are therefore liable to explode in an accident, the company will distribute between 4.7 million and 6 million $1,000 certificates good for the purchase of its trucks. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is still seeking recall of the trucks, and personal-injury suits were not covered by the deal...