Word: framing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the contest involves factors unique to New York, the city's election is very much a frame in the national newsreel. Lindsay is the impatient man, the activist and agitator that Robert Kennedy became in his last year, the self-righteous, abrasive enemy of the way things are, who will make blunders and enemies but who will not placidly accept society's faults. He wants to prove the very problematical thesis that big cities are governable, given enough cash and imagination. It is a bad time for such men because many whites feel that there have been too many...
Procaccino's average man and Marchi's forgotten New Yorker are of course political stereotypes. In flesh and blood terms, they are many people. Some live on meager incomes as pensioners, clinging to the frame houses that represent a lifetime's work. "People tend to forget," says Marchi, "that there are many poor white people." To the retired worker, or to the family living on $7,000 or $8,000 in the lower civil service ranks, a tax increase on their homes or an apartment rent rise is a grave threat to the stability of a small, precarious world. Second...
...deep-focus shot while dramatic action takes place nearer or farther from the camera. Rossellini's spaces are no less real, but he reveals the truth of a scene by following the characters with his camera, strengthening certain actions by showing them close up and excluding others from the frame. In an early scene de Sica enters Nazi headquarters. The camera tracks after him through a dark archway while a Gestapo motorcycle runs by him from the interior courtyard. Inside, de Sica enters an anteroom to find it full of people waiting to ask for amnesty for prisoners. Instead...
...foreign commerce, including but not limited to the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio or television, with intent to incite riot." The concept of judging a defendant's intent is not particularly unusual; there are such offenses as assault with intent to kill. In dealing with a person's frame of mind regarding civil disorders, however, large and ambiguous questions arise involving the difference between the legitimate exercise of dissent and an unlawful intent to create mayhem...
This necessarily implies that each of the committee members will attempt to frame proposals that can reasonably be expected to gain wide-spread agreement among all interested groups and not simply to advance plans that might appeal to a narrow majority...