Word: framed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each exhibitor was given an eight-foot square white flat and told to fill it; a ridiculous idea, to put the frame before the picture. The result is predictably scrappy--Ted Spagna is three large black and white photographs and one color sequence are fit into the space, but none of the four bear any relation to each other above and beyond contiguity...
...Moynihan-with his long forelock that seems forever (and designedly) askew, his cherubic face, well-upholstered 6 ft. 4 in. frame and congenital inability to resist controversy-he can be counted upon to enliven the Senate with rhetorical flourishes worthy of such famous orators as Daniel Webster or even Everett Dirksen...
...were to discuss case studies of the Watergate break-in and Nixon cover-up, the ethics of the matter would be clear. But what if the course's instructor tries to tackle a more complex and important issue, such as Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia? Would the instructor frame the discussion around the ethics of bombing people into submission or the ethics of keeping such bombing secret? In either case it is clear that the instructor's private prejudices would have to surface. Perhaps simply talking about such cases can be beneficial. But it is a rare professor that...
...creations of Great Men, nor architecture that of Architects; the anonymous designer of a row of 1830's workers' houses in Alabama, and the workers who lived in them shaped the past and influenced the present as much as the Southern aristocrats who lived in mansions nearby. Frame cottages are as important to save as plantation residences...
...first part of the film, both men are marooned on a vast frozen lake. Dersu saves them from freezing by building a hut cut of dry grass, deploying some tools of civilization (rifles, a surveying instrument) as the frame for the shelter. It is the Captain, however, who later pulls Dersu out of a rushing river by constructing a rescue device from a felled tree and a couple of leather belts. The scene is both exciting and funny: Dersu, clinging to a rock in the water, has to shout instructions to the Captain...