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Word: framings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blue siren suit stood Winston Churchill, looking smaller than life. He wordlessly gave his benediction to the White House aides by raising his arm and forming the victory sign with his chubby fingers. The door closed as suddenly as it opened. For Hopkins, now 73, it was a singular frame in his own remarkable march of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: At the Elbow of Power | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...gregarious Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks shy about his enthusiasm for life in the outdoors. As he showed a visitor around his office, he sported a tie decorated with kangaroos and held in place by an elephant clasp. His 260-lb. frame was partially cloaked by a casual cardigan sweater adorned with a pin that said DUCKS. Says Arnett: "I like the camaraderie of hunting. I like sleeping in tents and sleeping bags. I like the smell of horse manure and horses. If I happen to get a deer, I'm delighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Sharpshooter at Interior | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...condition of love, indeed, that the lightness of experience becomes most comic and most acute; Kundera's meditation on the problems of love are very fine. Sabina, looking at Franz's physically powerful frame, grows angry at Franz's refusal to use his strength outwardly in directing others' lives. He is too weak, she thinks, at the same time knowing that a strong man would be at least as offensive; she decides, in a terrible access of honesty, that it is love itself she cannot stomach. A more unsettling predicament is the failure even of dedicated lovers to achieve real...

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: The Brilliant Irony of Levity | 4/13/1984 | See Source »

...conceived by a macabre surrealist. In some farming areas the dead bodies of cows were found hanging from trees, and in McColl, S.C., an aluminum fishing boat was wrapped around a tree trunk like foil paper. Near by, all that remained of what had been a section of old frame houses was a field of splintered wood, with undamaged household articles sticking out incongruously. Two rescue workers diverted themselves from the grim task of searching through the debris for bodies by staging an impromptu open-air musicale. One weary young man sat down at an undamaged piano and picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like the Hand of God | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...fourth inning, the Crimson batwomen finally started fighting back. After catcher Gia Barresi grounded out to start the frame, Brown, who led the Crimson with two hits, reached first on a Texas League single to right center...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: MIT Blanks Batwomen in Opener, 5-0 | 4/7/1984 | See Source »

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