Word: framed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter also tended to frame his stands on hot issues in ways that had broad appeal. He drew a distinction between amnesty for Viet Nam draft evaders and the "full pardon" that he promised to grant in the first week of his Administration. Amnesty, he said, implied that draft evasion was all right, while a pardon merely granted forgiveness. He thus brought audiences around to accepting the idea of a pardon. In fact and in law, however, amnesty does not imply approval. Reminded of this by a TIME correspondent last week, Carter smiled and rather archly said: "I'll define...
...movie Badlands, began in January 1958, in Lincoln, Neb. For no apparent reason, the 19-year-old bandy-legged high school dropout shot to death Caril's mother and stepfather and clubbed to death her two-year-old half sister in the family's rundown frame house. The two teen-agers quickly went from killing to killing, all without motive. The victims: a 70-year-old bachelor farmer, a teen-age couple, a well-to-do industrialist, his wife and his maid, and a traveling salesman. The epidemic of shootings turned Lincoln into a horrified city under siege...
...than the desire for action and his fear of Communism. There is no attempt to provide a bureaucratic explanation as some liberal historians have done. Far worse, she totally glosses over any political explanation for his decisions about Vietnam. By strictly adhering to a psychobiographical analysis, she denies the frame of reference provided by the Pentagon Papers, and their interpreters. A far more logical explanation for some of Johnson's moves--the desire to stave off a defeat through stalemate until the next election, put forward by Daniel Ellsberg in his 1971 essay "The Quagmire Myth and Stalemate Machine...
...arraignment, Jascalevich -who once said fellow doctors might be trying to "frame" him-pleaded not guilty and was released on $150,000 bail until his trial. Unless his license is lifted, he will probably continue to perform surgery at two other New Jersey hospitals, where he is considered a highly competent craftsman...
...wants it.' Tahitians treat children as people who have legitimate wants and needs. None of this I-know-better-because-I'm-your-parent syndrome. I respect it. But I've learned not to try to go native mentally ... not to try to assume their mind frame. My first seven years as a child growing up in Illinois always gets in the way, and I meet myself coming around the other side of the island...