Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down easy. In fact, its strenuous experimentation not only polarized the jazz audience but lost jazz itself much popular support. As if realizing this and trying to reach some sort of no-sweat accommodation, Gillespie turned up the volume on his personality. His goatee, heavy-black-frame specs and frequent beret became prototypical hepcat mufti. His voice, which sounded like a thunderclap wanting to purr, could be heard on cool novelties like Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. His cheeks expanded so far past normal size when he played his horn that he looked, on the bandstand, as if he were...
Villa saved 11 of 12 chances in the first frame and 14 in the third...
Forced retirement also left him more time for painting, a hobby he has enjoyed for many years. His artistic tastes run to the surreal; one painting is called Nausea. Another, Coma. A third, an allegorical study of genocide, is set in a frame that, by various accounts, was either painted red to look like blood or painted in actual human blood that Kevorkian salvaged from outdated samples at the local blood bank, and from...
Even when Hesse's work seems entirely abstract, it refers to bodily functions. Hang Up, 1966, looks at first like a trope about illusion and reality -- the big rectangular frame hanging on the wall with nothing in it, but with a loop of steel tube spilling onto the gallery floor and connecting the frame's top-left to its bottom-right corner. But again, there's a fleshy metaphor -- both tube and frame are wrapped in cloth, like bandaged parts of a patient, and the tube seems to be recirculating some kind of fluid. Blood? Lymph? Fantasies? Even in absence...
Senior point guard Gregg Frame ignited the initial attack, at one point stealing the ball and passing it behind his back to a streaking teammate for a dunk...