Word: focal
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...capital. Ten years later, Zhu oversaw the construction of the longest city wall in China: a massive battlement almost 37 kilometers in diameter. Today nearly 21 kilometers are still standing and the towering Old City Wall?more than 20 meters high at some points?is a dramatic focal point throughout much of the city...
...Michael Faber (Harcourt; September), giving it a starred, boxed review. "Faber's bawdy, brilliant second novel tells an intricate tale of love and ambition and paints a new portrait of Victorian England and its citizens in prose crackling with insight and bravado. Using the wealthy Rackham clan as a focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era's secrets and social hypocrisy...A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork that will hold readers captive until the final page. FORECAST: Harcourt executive editor...
...stripper of 17 years who works in the Las Vegas area, says her job used to be more about performing. "Now," she says, with clubs and police showing greater tolerance of physical contact, "it's about sex. It's about getting men off." Whereas the stage was once the focal point of strip clubs, the job in most venues now consists almost entirely of giving lap dances...
...world cracked open, and women’s history suddenly became a focal point,” she says...
Though women’s history is the collection’s focal point, Gold emphasizes the evolution of the history of photography as well—from daguerreotypes to tin types to albumin prints...