Word: frames
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grabbed [the window frame] and yelled for my roommates," he said. "They got a wire hanger and tied it around the window and secured it until an officer came...
...just heard someone screaming," he said. "I came running over. The glass inside [the window frame] had broken and shards of glass were falling out already...
...Simpson trial deals in the same kind of cognitive dissonance. Defense lawyers are suggesting that the l.a.p.d. has executed an ingenious frame-up of Simpson even as they lay bare the workaday ineptitude of the same alleged conspirators. These views would seem self-evidently irreconcilable, and yet the public is said to be so willing to believe in a police conspiracy that virtually every legal expert expects Simpson to walk...
...Reed's imminent appearance before the state senate: "They want to know you don't have two heads, that you don't have horns." Reed, who looks every bit the eagle scout he once was, responded with a guffaw that was too loud by half for his 64-kg frame. The New Hampshire senate, which usually deigns to listen only to would-be Presidents, paid close attention to his message. The ranks of conservative Christians, Reed said, are now "too large, too diverse, too significant to be ignored by either major political party." Not long ago, America's Christian right...
Ugly, isn't it? If you will carefully notice, things are indeed getting ugly. There are comedies like the never-ending Simpson trial and tragedies like the bombing in Oklahoma City. And if you read newspapers, put yourself into the frame and think for a little while. You will be scared and disgusted, just like...