Word: framing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife Honey (see cut) is a model; she eats what she likes and has the following measurements on a 5' 7", 125-lb. frame: bust 35, waist 23, hips 35. And she doesn't need the padded accessories that TIME says almost all models require...
Clapped into solitary for stealing luminal from the prison dispensary, Grandstaff could compose without disturbance. He wrote on the walls, worked out rhythmic passages by pounding his commode and the frame of his cot. When he was released from solitary, he put words & music on paper...
...would hold between one of these situations and the framework of a rehearsal of "Romeo and Juliet," in which Mr. Evans and Miss Best, as a famous and fabulous theatrical couple, play the title parts between miscellaneous interruptions in the course of the rehearsal. The play parodies the ingrown frame of mind often found in the theater where the world would seem to pivot on a chalk mark in the center of the stage. The humor, which is reminiscent of vandeville in its pacing and gags, stems from the contrast between life backstage and the rehearsing of Shakespeare's tragedy...
...down from the stand, the fifth Communist to be jailed for contempt in the eight-month conspiracy trial of eleven of the nation's top Reds. Outside the courthouse in Manhattan's Foley Square, Communist pickets dutifully picked up the new refrain: "Free Carl Winter. Stop this frame-up." Within minutes, placards appeared, with Winter's name neatly lettered...
...moves along in constant and successful pursuit of happiness, from high school prom to church wedding to a mortgage-free white frame house, she becomes a nearly epic figure: America's Everywoman. Her great and simple message is: life can be happy and Everywoman can be beautiful...