Word: focal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early going she suggests no mysterious depths of feeling, intelligence or sexuality that would require more than 40 minutes to plumb. As she ages-and life plays its usual mean tricks on the three of them-she seems a pleasant, easy kind of woman but not the focal point around which three lives are built...
This interdependence of man and animal lends the people themselves to dress as animals as they call on the spirits. Their ceremonial masks are the focal point of this show, and their beauty blends both religious utilitarianism and aesthic form. A forehead mask, of a loon, an elegant swoop of painted wood, decorated with seagull feathers, eagle down and willow branches, becomes the frightened figure of a dying animal...
...DEMOCRATS. In the 1960s party liberals fought to get on the Judiciary Committee because it was a focal point of civil rights activism. The last great civil rights bill, open housing, came before the committee in 1966, but the body continued to attract young, feisty and ambitious liberals as it dealt with matters of criminal justice, women's rights and the presidential succession; most recently, it handled the nomination of Gerald Ford as Vice President...
After the primary results are in, national attention generally shifts away from New Hampshire for four years. This year though, the state will be a focal point for political analysts, as its own November elections promise to be the most significant in the recent history of New Hampshire. For the first time, a breakaway from conservative politics and the election of progressive political officials is a distinct possibility. And if New Hampshire makes a move to the left, it will serve as an important signal to presidential hopefuls of both parties, since the state has traditionally been regarded...
...Bernhardt in Camille, Admiral Peary showing lantern slides of his discovery of the North Pole, Anna Pavlova dancing The Dying Swan and Enrico Caruso giving one of his final operatic performances. Changing times had made the Academy as outdated as the hobble skirt. Manhattan had taken over as the focal point for the arts in New York City; the Depression and a decline in the surrounding neighborhoods had turned the institution, economically, into a ward of the city. A decade ago, it was dozing along mostly with lectures and film programs...