Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pace is slow but relentless, jarring at times, measured by a sickeningly warped sense of time that is disturbing even when it is almost boring. Intertitles warn of a slowly decreasing time frame measured first in months, and finally in minutes. Through the film, Kubrick never loses his eye for detail, using red to fantastic effect. The soundtrack groans initially with laughably melodramatic tones but turns into a collection of distorted household noises: plumbing gargles, airplane take-offs, TV gibberish, heartbeats, breathing, and chanting...
Racial hostility is so high in Boston that blacks fear to walk into South Boston, citadel of the city's Irish, as much as whites fear going into black Roxbury. Even in boomtown Houston the frame shacks of the city's blacks still stretch for blocks almost within the shadows of the tall new office buildings...
...midnight, he left with Martha Coleman. Married and divorced four times, she is a supervisor for the local International Harvester Co. plant and has been a member of the Urban League for three years. According to police, the pair drove in her car to her handsome, two-story white frame house on tree-lined Lafayette Esplanade in a racially mixed neighborhood in south central Fort Wayne. For two hours or so, Coleman told police, they drank coffee and chatted. Shortly after 2 a.m., Coleman drove Jordan back to the Marriott, where he was gunned down...
...risk. Many military planners believe that a return to the draft would be logistically inefficient (too many bodies coming of age all at once to sift through); on purely technical grounds, the matter is open to debate. Much more fascinating is the moral context in which Americans now frame the possibility of obliging citizens to relinquish their freedom for a while and put themselves physically on the line for their country...
...insurance brokerage firm, says the ACSR is less conservative than in the past and "in general, its members are thinking a bit more, not just blindly voting" at the urging of certain committee members. Richard Valelly, a graduate student in government and committee member, also notes a "more receptive frame of mind" on the part of faculty and alumni members; both he and Vagts attribute the more activist votes in part to the fact that "students did their homework and presented their arguments well...