Word: frame
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There is something almost otherworldly about the hazel-eyed Miller. Her ghostly paleness and thin frame give her a misleadingly fragile appearance. She conveys a sense that she doesn't speak unless spoken to; her favorite answer is, "I don't know." When working out, she constantly looks as if she might break into tears. It was that very look that initially attracted the attention of Steve Nunno in 1986 when both were visiting a gymnastics camp in the Soviet Union. "Shannon was trying so hard and getting extremely frustrated," he recalls. "I felt, There...
...scenes, Onodi's precompetition jitters can be comical. "Henni always forgets something," says teammate Ildiko Balog, "like her leotard or her competition number." But if she stays calm and summons some hey-look-at-me showmanship, she could hit gold. At 4 ft. 10 in., her lithe, well-proportioned frame creates the illusion of greater height, and her floor routine, set to West Side Story, offers a grace and artistry rare in the tumbling-heavy all-around event...
...second boom occurred at the height of Barcelona's industrial prosperity and misery, between 1860 and 1910. Its main frame, the huge grid of chocolate- square blocks that stretches from the Barri Gotic up the slope toward the Collserola hills, was designed in 1859 by a socialist engineer named Ildefons Cerda. It is known as the Eixample, or Enlargement, and is the ancestor of all the Utopian schemes of 20th century architecture. The cultural contents of this grid, as it developed, proved no less remarkable. The trade-obsessed city of powerful clerics and stuffy businessmen was the closest place...
...slick comic-book thriller, TIME contributor Martha Smilgis works a writer's hustle (Is it a book, or is it a screenplay?) in the area she knows best, Hollywood and % entertainment news. And in the tradition of Cecil B. DeMille, who condemned sin by taking his audience through frame after lascivious frame, she shows just how filthy the road to filthy lucre...
...bring a huge picture with a heavy gilt frame. Harvard hates nail holes. Instead, the Yard powers is provide you with "poster gum," Which is basically useless. Fine other ways to hang pictures, or get used to the minimalism of blank walls...