Word: framed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alberto Giacometti looks like a tormented Chico Marx; he also sculps and paints with the bug-eyed fury of a Harpo, and creates things undreamed of even in Groucho's philosophy. His subject matter is the human frame; his approach to it destructive. Giacometti hacks, picks and pocks his plaster sculptures until they stand thin as reeds, then he generally smashes them. He saved just enough to make an exhibition in a Paris gallery last week...
After the first charge, as Honeycutt's 6 ft. 3 in. frame sagged limply in the chair, Mrs. Byrd said: "I'm not nervous. I don't know why I wanted to see it. I just can't explain it." Another surge of electricity stiffened Honeycutt's body and he was dead...
Early one morning last week, 41-year-old Airman Blair jammed his 6 ft. 2 in. frame into the fighter's cockpit, gunned down the runway at Bardufoss, Norway, and headed north towards the Pole. Sealed off from tip to tip, his wings held 865 gallons of gas, enough for 5,000 miles. Soon the sea 22,000 feet below gave way to icy ridges and plateaus. A Norwegian Air Force Catalina flying boat patrolling near Spitzbergen gave him a radio call as he whisked past, reported back that Captain Blair was right on course. Hour after hour...
Brought in from the garden for the show, Laurens' curvy nudes looked rather like stones worn by the sea's, thumb into bland symbols for human flesh and frame. His figures were perfectly innocent of erotic detail, had none of the heavy grossness of an Epstein. They just showed a good-natured man's happy eye, a sculptor's firm hand...
After the second bankruptcy, B. & O. General Solicitor Cassius Clay (an ex-RFC lawyer), resigned in disgust, was joined by another B. & O. lawyer. Said 'lay after he quit: the loans were a "gigantic steal," a "frame-up" and a "fraud." The bankruptcy, said the Tobey report, did more than postpone payment of the loan. It enabled the railroad to convert the notes held by RFC into non-salable bonds, hence left RFC with a frozen loan rather than a live claim on the B. & O.'s assets. Once converted, RFC's collateral Dehind its loans...