Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take in at a glance. (The device amounts to a kind of cheating, a withholding of information to milk suspense.) And when it occurs to Angie Dickenson that she has forgotten, say, her wedding ring, DePalma shows a split screen image of the ring on one side of the frame, her exasperated face on the other. (He uses this device three times early in the picture, then drops...
...team. Despite Lear's well-known womanizing, they stayed married for 36 years. Moya concentrated on her needlepoint and listened to Lear's descriptions of his latest inventions. Once she stitched the names of her husband's girlfriends and presented the needlepoint to him in a frame. One name was in purple because Mrs. Lear thought she was "the most elegant and imperial of the lot." Yet Mrs. Lear says today: "My whole life was devoted to Bill. After he died I had the sleeping pills ready, but I got caught up with this project...
...result, I have over the past year asked myself whether there were solid reasons for deviating from the time frame we initially set," Sacks wrote in the letter. "My conclusion is that, for this dean and this era in the school's history, we planned very well indeed," he added...
...search of Yoda, an 800-year-old, three-foot-high Jedi master and wise-cracking philosopher who teaches Luke the intricacies of The Force. Yoda--a muppet-like creation operated by Frank Oz (Miss Piggy's human half)--proves a special effects miracle in a film where every frame contains an intricate cinematographic maneuver. The puppet's retinue of facial expressions is endless; his ears alone are more expressive than any of his human co-stars, whose abilities to convey emotions seem to have suffered permanent frostbite on the frozen ice planet...
...among the boost ers and dealers who have built the town and fenced the range. They have brought him here to wipe out a gang of rustlers, but his murderous skills and cranky in dependence make the clean-shirt-once-a-week crowd nervous. Before long, sure enough, they frame him for the cowardly killing of a boy of 15. The situation is al most self-consciously classic, and there is a temptation to yell "Come back, Shane!" at the screen. But it is a pleasure to watch Steve McQueen's tough, weathered mug as he speaks the lines...