Word: framed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engineer and a civil engineer himself, he bristles with impatience at imperfection, especially in his own performance. To keep his 6-ft., 182-lb. frame in shape, Evans, 42, began jogging a few years ago, long before it became the thing to do. Last year friends gave him the "Tired Tennis Shoe Award"?a scruffy old sneaker which he proudly displays in a glass case in his office. Essentially he is a loner, and his favorite sports are those that pit a single man against nature, or against the limits of his own endurance?hiking, mountain climbing, skiing, sailing...
...pitched battle lasted for about four hours, as shadowy snipers ran from house to house. Eventually several commandeered a neat two-story frame house on Lakeview Road. Now more than 100-strong and armed with automatic rifles, police bombarded the dwelling with bullets and tear-gas grenades. During the early morning, flames burst out of one of the windows. A gunman shouted from the top floor: "It's hot up here!" "Then why don't you give up?" asked a cop. The man began firing once more. Within minutes the whole house was ablaze. Two charred bodies were...
Whatever they may be worth on the market, stock certificates have always had a certain value just hanging on the wall. Christmas shoppers have been known to frame a particularly handsome, ornately engraved share of stock for the man who has everything. Unfortunately, the beauty of certificates lies only in the eye of the holder. To those who buy, sell and keep them in trust, they are a constant headache...
...scene is a seaside village on a remote stretch of Canada's Gaspé Peninsula. Almond uses his color camera as a landscape painter might, pausing now to frame a snow-banked brook and barnyard, now a pile of upturned boat hulls rotting in the winter sun. The country store, the local garage with the inevitable Coca-Cola sign and the railroad tracks piercing through the barren hills like a steel spine flash by in a blur of fast cuts. And always there is the distant, forlorn sound of cowbell and gull cry, wind and heaving...
...frame through which El Cordobés' life is seen is his Big Fight - the 1964 Madrid corrida in which he was elevated to the status of matador de toros and in which he survived a near-fatal goring. Every tense moment in this corrida is the cue for a flashback: the future El Cordobés growing up in an earth-floored hovel where he sometimes has only grass to eat; serving a grueling apprenticeship at village fiestas where the only available medical care is a slosh of alcohol in an open wound; rising under the tutelage...