Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year at college saw a startling metamorphosis. Ike spoke enthusiastically about his politics courses, and a disciplined exercise regimen had added a good 30 pounds of muscle to his slight frame. He looked healthy. He seemed happy. He spent much of last summer doing what he enjoyed most satling on his family's boat...
...memories and fantasies. If this synagogue scene has never made it into one of the director-producer's movies, still the mood and metaphor it represents -- of fear escalating into wonder, of the ordinary made extraordinary, of the journey from darkness into light -- inform just about every frame Spielberg has committed to film...
...children of those women grew up and moved to Long Island, Miami, Houston and Hollywood. Some of them built shopping malls or went to medical school or wrote television sitcoms. Their stories became literature, their jokes part of the national frame of reference. Assimilation was complete. Now other women from other areas of the world are taking their places...
...coming to the U.S. changed his career. "America give me access to high tech," he says. "Here I get a sense of what high-tech equipment can do to sensibility. American kids have moved from Sesame Street through The Electric Company to MTV. They can see things in a frame that European kids can't." Is this mutation good, bad or what? "I don't know," Paik concedes. "But it's happening here...
...much about Forman and his films mirrors the spirit of America. Like any true Hollywood director, he works on the grand scale, in broad, confident strokes. Energy, not nuance, informs every frame. And like any true immigrant with a success story, Forman is grateful to his adoptive country. "For me," he says, "there was only one place to go if I couldn't live in my own country: America. It is a country of immigrants. There is such a tolerance for the foreign and the unfamiliar. America continues to amaze...