Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result was not only the largest canvas of Stubbs' career but the grandest in structure and, to modern eyes, the most suggestive. That immense, glossy brown frame of the horse, floating across one's whole field of vision, has the compulsive power of a dream image. In the interest of decorum, Stubbs left out the wounds and weals on Hambletonian's flanks, but his sympathies remained with the animal: white slaver flecks his mouth, the ears lie back flat, and the pink tongue lolls in the aftermath of exhaustion. The creature is attended, none too reverently...
Then consider, through that he needs those huge upper arms just to left his 6-ft, 5-in 280-lb frame out of bed in the morning...
...that's not putting the Cantabs in a careless frame of mind, at least judging by Abbott's attitude. "We're certainly not looking by them, which is definitely what you'd be afraid of with Penn coming up," he says...
...owed to the cloisonism (decorative "inlaying" of the picture surface with outlines) of Van Gogh and Gauguin. The Paris of the cubists may have gone; but like the Umbria of Piero della Francesca, Van Gogh's Provence manages to endure, both in and out of the frame...
...expect individuals and organization to respect our right to speak and write and choose our members as we think best if we insist on using institutional sanctions to try to impose on them those policies and opinions that we consider important," he is using a domestic liberal context to frame his argument. Imposing on South Africa our views on apartheid is not something anyone disagrees with, as Bok hastens to point out elsewhere in his letter. It is not improper because apartheid is not something we, the University, happen to consider important as a private internal matter...