Word: framer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...QUESTION REMAINS: why would anyone want to own one of Rocky's "clones." Rockefeller appeals to snobbery in his catalog. The reproductions will be "framed in a similar manner and by the same framer Mr. Rockefeller uses in his own home." When we buy one of his reproductions we earn the title of art collector...
...revealed in me a vulnerability that I didn't realize still existed. In her stories she had written about blacks with no overtly racist edge. Now I must look at her stories again, and more carefully. I can only hope that the glib pontificator of that evening, the framer of vacuous sentences, is at odds with the humbler personality of the writer at home...
...Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, who also authored the novel that was the source of the Hitchcock classic "Strangers on a Train," Wim Wenders' new thriller is frighteningly effective. Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper turn in the best performances of their careers as a dying Swiss picture framer and a psychologically-shattered American who helps manipulate the picture framer into murdering an upper-echelon Mafioso, and Wenders' sharp eye and dramatic sense hone the film to a remarkably fine edge...
Last week Giscard finally did go to dinner, and the first family selected to play host to France's First Family turned out to be that of Claude Cucchiarini. A Parisian picture framer, Cucchiarini had done some work for the President and casually invited him over. Still, he could not have been more surprised when one of Giscard's top aides phoned three weeks ago and advised that the Giscards had accepted. The only request: keep it secret, keep it simple and don't hire any outside help...