Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed that we spent the year in the moral faculty lounge debating the weight of our principles, there was value in that exercise as well. You learn more about the views you hold when you're forced to defend them. Tom DeLay tried to frame the debate as a choice between relativism and absolute truths, but there were subtler arguments advanced by both sides. Smart virtuecrats like Bill Bennett argued that a leader who occasionally drank in the evenings was not impeachable, but one who drank before deciding on troop deployments maybe was. White House officials agonized in private over...
...Music Festivals and the Soirees Musicales du Chateau of de Versailles. He has also made a concert tour of his native Norway, sponsored by the Norwegian government. It is perhaps unjustly comical to watch him curl his long body in its grey suit and blue tie around the ancient frame of the lute. His sits with one leg over the other, cradling his lute close to him and dipping his head to the notes so that at times his nose almost touches the strings. Despite his height, he seems to bring every part of himself in as close as possible...
...Chicago's Goodman Theatre that opens (with some minor cast changes) on Broadway this week, is a solid entrant in the big-Willy tradition. He's a charismatic man who, it's easy to imagine, might actually have been liked, even well liked, in his prime. Yet his lumbering frame seems constantly ready to tip over, a giant reduced to childlike confusion...
While there was no glitz to this cozy production, it works. Though thumbtacked and frame-less, the photographs clearly demonstrate the talent of the artists and their passion for their subject matter. With any luck "Departures, Separations, Losses" will set a precedent for increased independent visual art shows on the Harvard campus...
...know their [the Docket Committee's] intentions with respect to a time frame," said the dean...