Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...according to Roth's novel, was Iron Rinn, ne Ira Ringold, a gangly (6-ft. 6-in.) son of Newark who had circuitously risen, after his military service during World War II, to become a prominent radio actor in Manhattan. Ira's new fame brings rewards. He marries Eve Frame, a one-time star of silent films, then Broadway and now radio, and moves into her elegant Greenwich Village townhouse, where Sylphid, Eve's 23-year-old daughter from a former marriage, also resides...
...laced with the chill of specific, damning truth. On the outstanding "This House is Empty Now," a moving portrait of a man who cannot make sense of the unreliable memories that inscribe his vacant home, Bacharach and Costello write: "Do you recognize the face fixed in that fine silver frame?/Were you really so unhappy then? You never said." In these final three words, Costello and Bacharach condense the touching inability of the narrator to reconcile his traces of love with the reality of heartbreak. The lyrics convey the narrator's simultaneous rage at his lover's silent suffering...
Tuttle's greatest weapon is his smile, which breaks across his craggy face and spreads to the two small clouds of white hair that frame his balding head. He doesn't own a suit. He giggles. Any big plan would have to be written down rather than announced: his strong Yankee accent is thickened by the loss of teeth years ago in a bar fight. When he says his name, it sounds like "Furry Turtle...
They see a mortal hero--white, ungraceful in his 6'4" frame--who has successfully overcome his natural shortcomings and attained fame by preparation and persistence...
...intrigued by Lewinsky's keeping the stained dress. Why? Was she planning to frame it? Or send it to be auctioned at Sotheby's? This girl is weird. But even weirder is Clinton's ever getting involved with such a birdbrain. GENE C. GERZSO Mexico City...