Word: focal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...focal point of the exhibit is a section devoted to Alexander Herrmann, who was considered the premier magician of the 19th century...
Increasing debate has surrounded feminism and the experience of undergraduate women following rape allegations against Joshua K. Elster '00 last spring and his guilty plea this fall. Questions about the future of Radcliffe have also been a focal point for contention...
Truth be told, the plot is hardly action-packed or particularly original, but this doesn't mean that Evening is any less interesting to read. Minot saves us from boredom through her experimentation with words, which becomes the true focal point of the novel and admirably recreates Ann's sentiments and state of mind. At times, the boundaries of grammar dissolve into an endless stream of images that jump from fragments of one remembered moment or conversation to another. Smelling the balsam in a cushion someone gave her, for instance, sets off a chain of memory in which...
...designer Molly Hughes' interesting set foreshadows the wacky perspectives that are to come. A traditional, colonial style room resides on a stage that slants forward severely (making one wonder how the actors manage to avoid tumbling straight into the audience) with walls that slant together toward a distant focal point. It gives the impression that we are always looking at a photograph with skewed proportions, and illuminates very severely the sad fact that we are not watching picture-perfect families parade across the stage...
Arguing for a return to pleasure as the focal point of the poetic experience, Koch dismissed the postmodern literary theory which has been the center of academic pedagogy for the last three decades: "As a primary approach to a work of art, it doesn't make any more sense than as a primary approach to swimming." He held instead that a simpler, more casual approach was a better way into the poetic experience, claiming that "writing poetry should be a little like being at a party. You dance, you drink, you flirt, and you don't have to come...