Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much, too fast, too easy. Few worried when Spielberg spent double his Jaws budget and then overextended himself by $6.2 million on Close Encounters; after all, everybody got rich anyway. With 1941 there was no such reprieve. Though the film eventually broke even-and though, frame for frame, it was every bit as adroitly assembled as his hits had been-1941 tarnished the boy wonder's luster. "Until then I thought I was immune to failure," he says. "But I couldn't come down from the power high of making big films on large canvases. I threw everything...
...helped to get him paroled. The "devil's advocate" does not always win; in fact, he often loses. As he explains in his book, The Best Defense, to be published this month by Random House, "The Perry Mason image of the heroic defender of innocent victims of frame-ups or mistaken identification is television fiction...
...seeking out the behind-the-scenes moments that give dimension to the electoral odyssey. "The outdoor reporting seems to shrink in significance, and what remains most relevant is the quiet moments at my desk," he concludes. "I could sit at home and learn as much or more about the frame of the campaign as I could on the road...
...possible that Smash Palace is either very brave or very foolish in its refusal to calculate how its moral is likely to anger feminists. But since it is a movie stamped with integrity in every frame, it seems more likely that it was made with no ideology in mind, just a desire to show how a specific marriage was put asunder. Al and Jacqui may or may not be typical, but they are poignantly particularized people without a drop of soapsuds clinging to them...
...Crimson scrambled back, tying the game at four in the top of the sixth, watching Tufts retake the lead in the bottom half of that frame, and then winning the game with a three-run seventh...