Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reaganomics: "The reason we did it wrong-not wrong, but less than the optimum-was that we said, Hey, we have to get a program out fast. .. We were working in a 20-or 25-day time frame, and we didn't think it all the way through. We didn't add up all the numbers." In another part of the article: "The pieces were moving on independent tracks-the tax program, where we were going on spending, and the defense program, which was just a bunch of numbers written on a piece of paper...
...really accomplished, he is neatly shunted aside by a quick and easy deus ex machina, the question never to be dealt with at all. The lone figure from the past--aged 21 in 1968, 41 in 1988 when the play is supposed to take place--serves only to frame the action and act as a convenient medium for the songs, like "Hair" and "Aquarius," that can't be neatly crammed into the modernized plot...
...Gate!" screams the rider, as the horses enter the enclosure. Crawford releases the rope, but the gate is jammed and does not close. The pack wheels and madly bolts for the 6-ft.-wide opening. But Robison and his mount block the way. He grabs the hulking steel frame and yanks it shut behind the wild bunch. Confined for the first time, the mustangs bellow with anger. In his fury, an aging stallion throws himself against the steel grating, opening a gash across his forehead...
Musical Mondays--Pamela Frame, cellist; music of Debussy, Shostakovich and Faure; the French Library in Boston, 53 Marlborough St., Boston...
...takes some doing to coax a roomful of sage, serious adult Harvard students into the frame of mind where they will laugh and cheer hysterically at the sight of other Harvard students thrusting one another behind draperies, only to stumble on still others. But it undoubtedly can be done. And while none of the group that troops out--forgetting, for laughter, to rub its collective strained neck--will go home and discuss the finer points of drama, few will escape without the four-year-old gleam in the eye that comes from one last swoop on the ferris wheel...