Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using the photo-cinematic method, Gifford composes his novel as a carefully arranged series of short takes moving between past and present, memory and event, reality and hallucination. It's literary impressionism, splicing silent and often motionless pictures together into a frame containing only the essential, electric excerpts of life. These panels, the charged, memorable exposures of life in Franz Hall's mind, are rendered in 85 well-cropped and vivid chapters. Two whole adjoining chapters read as follows...
...afternoon's requisite visceral thriller pitted number-six man Charlie Duffy against Scott "Fur-head" Schumann. After splitting the first four games with the Eli, Duffy found himself down 14-11 in the final frame. "That's when I started getting a little scared," Duffy said afterwards. "When I got to 14-14 and the three-point tie-breaker, I knew I could handle...
...match really shouldn't have gone to five games, because after winning the third frame, 15-3, Harvard jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the fourth...
...correspondents were expelled at the end of that year. Because of concerns for his safety, his name has been kept out of the magazine for nearly a year. Those fears turned out to be well grounded. Samghabadi was arrested and terrorized in an effort to use him to frame Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, former Foreign Minister and a close associate of the Ayatullah Khomeini, as an agent of the CIA. He refused and was subjected to a mock execution. Now safe in the U.S., Samghabadi tells of his arrest-and flight...
Calling A and A-minus grades "excellent and excellent-minus," Mansfield added, "I can't believe 37 per cent of Harvard students are doing excellent or excellent-minus. That degree of inflation indicates a bad frame of mind...