Word: framed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repulsed by the vacuity of Jerry's responses to his situation is not that important. What Updike can be held responsible for is the length and tedium of Jerry's odes to Sally. His sentimentality is so airy, so adolescent as to be painful. Perhaps this is precisely the frame of mind that Jerry is supposed to be in; or possibly Updike, after years of experience at depicting compulsive, cynical relationships, is incapable of conjuring an image of "wholesome" love...
When the Lord Jeffs took a 3-1 lead on a fluke goal 15 minutes into the second frame, the visitors ran out of gas, and Harvard mentor George Ford sent in his substitutes to preside over the final two Amherst tallies...
...firmed up their final voting plans, in part because so many are unenthusiastic about both major candidates (see box below). Said Pollster Daniel Yankelovich: "Our TIME survey suggests that the race will seesaw back and forth until the very last minute, reflecting the voters' agonized and disappointed frame of mind...
...Education and Welfare in the Eisenhower Administration; in Rochester. As an executive of Eastman Kodak during the 1920s, he was a leading proponent of corporate unemployment and pension plans; the programs he established at Kodak and other Rochester firms became models for the nation. During the Depression, Folsom helped frame federal unemployment programs and the Social Security system, acknowledging that private resources were no longer adequate. His HEW tenure (1955-58) was marked by a greatly expanded budget for programs such as federal aid for school construction...
...escape works for a while and she gets to Italy, but her life stubbornly continues "to spread, to get flabby, to scroll and festoon like the frame of a baroque mirror." Significantly, the same might be said of Margaret Atwood's writing in Lady Oracle. The novel does not develop; it meanders, circling around and turning in on itself - letting its contours be defined by the chaos of the heroine's psyche. Italicized chunks of Joan Foster's latest gothic romance pop up just when one is expecting the next chapter in her life. The reader...