Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anorak. Casting Pacula as the lead was a wild risk, Apted admits, and not simply because of her English, which she has now brought to the level of lightly accented near fluency. The fact is that except for the screen test, nobody in the West had ever seen a frame of film she had made. Says Apted: "I loved the look of her, the demeanor, that's what I cast...
...greater public awareness of rights and a willingness to try them out in court. "That," says Rosenberg, "is certainly preferable to having them tested in the streets." Rosenberg agrees with Bok, however, that "law schools should do more to sensitize students to other possibilities besides fighting in an adversary frame." Bok will no doubt be even more heartened by the reaction of colleagues like Laurence Tribe, professor of constitutional law at Harvard. Bok's criticisms, says Tribe, are "if anything, an understatement...
...Washington chain-smokes Kools and, except for an occasional jog, fencing match or pool game, prefers being a spectator. But, with 215 Ibs. packed solidly on a 5-ft. 10-in. frame, he wore out bodyguards 25 years his junior during the campaign, getting by on five hours' sleep a night. The schedule was typical of the Congressman, an amiable but intensely private man. His modest Hyde Park apartment in Chicago is strewn with newspapers and books. He rarely indulges in vacations and avoids the social scene in Washington...
King uses a freeze-frame technique to good effect in numbers like "Another Hundred People": the action alternates between Robert talking to different girlfriends as Marta (Jennifer Susan Burton), invisible, listens in; and Marta singing a commentary while the other two freeze in the background...
...Mailer turned the emerging social type known as the hipster into a daring pioneer adrift in "the perpetual climax of the present," freed of all moral guides and codes of conduct except the thrumming of his own nervous system. The author specifically disavowed any precedents for this existential frame of mind: "If the ethic reduces to Know Thyself and Be Thyself, what makes it radically different from Socratic moderation with its stern conservative respect for the experience of the past is that the Hip ethic is immoderation, childlike in its adoration of the present (and indeed to respect the past...