Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After Harvard scored once in the final frame and then held on to withstand some late-game Tigers heroics to win, 24-21, little voices inside and bigger voices outside were screaming with...
...term originated. Its very first visual use was in a 1956 collage by the British artist Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, in which a body-builder hero is holding an enormous phallic sucker labeled POP, and a blown-up frame from a romance comic -- a prediction of the as yet undone work of Roy Lichtenstein -- hangs on the wall. Nor, just for the record, was this the only time the Brits were ahead of the Yanks. The chrome-plated whiskey bottles and other bibelots that New York's Jeff Koons...
...prologue is a wonderful way to frame your play, to say whatever you want to say. Make a statement without detracting from the humor of the text. Your number one responsibility to the audience is to entertain...
Even with such poetry, Owen does manage to maintain the frame of a practical how-to. His goals for the book extend far beyond the pleasures of entertainment. A fan of zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (which he read in college), Owen wants to "demystify technology" for all home owners. "There is a powerful feeling of tranquility that comes from knowing how one's house is put together," Owen writes. "My childhood would have been somewhat less anxiety-ridden had I realized...there was no way for pirates to crawl... from the laundry chute...
...heard that kind of excuse too, that she was not upset enough. There are some survivors who relive each part of the episode like a single camera frame and others who repress it. But each telling is different. With a serial rapist, for example, you know exactly what he says when he approaches each woman, what the language is, what the sexual acts are, how long it took. And yet it's fascinating to see five women at trial testify about a very similar event very differently, depending on each woman's emotional strength, at what point this happened...