Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inarguably the biggest man on campus, and who would want to argue with him anyway? North Carolina State University Senior Tab Thacker, 22, packs 447½ Ibs. into a frame that is 58 in. (chest) by 54 in. (waist) by 77 in. (height). "I never eat a whole lot at a time, but I eat continuously," he explains. Thacker is almost as able-bodied as he is awesome. An All-America collegiate wrestler, he is fresh from pinning down the N.C.A.A. heavyweight title with his 31st consecutive win of the year. His next goal is the Olympics...
...business, GE gave an antiquated factory in Erie, Pa., what General Manager Carl Schlemmer calls an "electronic heart transplant." Cost: $500 million. Giant computer-driven arms and machine tools help the factory turn out locomotives in a fraction of the time once required. A 2,500-lb. motor frame that took 16 days to build can now be done in 16 hours. By 1986 GE could be making about 800 locomotives a year, up a third from current levels...
Fred Shragai, 59, of Encino, Calif., is a good example. Fourteen years ago, the prosperous real estate developer had a cholesterol level above 300 mg. At the time, he smoked four packs of cigarettes a day, was overweight (202 lbs. on a 5-ft. 5-in. frame) and routinely put in five or six 14-hour, pressure-packed days a week at the office. Rich sauces and fatty meat were his standard fare for both lunch and dinner, and exercise meant reaching under the bed to grab from his stash of pretzels and potato chips. Shragai was a classic candidate...
...palette and a look of imminent collapse. Table legs lean toward disaster and supports bend as if fatigued. Spanish Designer Javier Mariscal's glass-and-red-metal trolley, called Hilton (all Memphis furniture is named for hotels), has a drunken, unsteady look due to its listing frame, although it is actually serviceable and solid. Italian Designer Michele De Lucchi's marble table, Sebastopole, seems to balance precariously on two brown bowling balls...
There is no contradiction between Hitchcock' canny conservatism and his directorial eminence profit and honor went hand in glove. Even his brief cameo appearances (silhouetted in the neon skyline of Rope, for example) are a playful cue to the viewer to watch every frame for tricks and revelations. The qualities that made him the world's best-known moviemaker were precisely the ones that made him one of the best film artists...