Word: focalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...masse behind bars-or expect to find more compliant replacements for them. On the other hand, if "this attempt to help bring about a varying of opinion and the democratic evolution of the country," as one Deputy put it, is allowed to succeed, it could well become the focal point of dissent against Franco's rule...
...nearly a decade, or since Robert Rauschenberg hung a tire on a stuffed goat and Andy Warhol began painting the soup can, artists have labored to create simple, obvious public art. They used colors that screamed; painting was likely to have hard-edged forms; sculpture was geometric, intended as focal points in plazas. Today the trend is in the opposite direction: artists are deliberately going underground. Even though they may use people as part of their sculptures-as does Byars-their purposes remain arcane and enigmatic...
...focal point of a lot of the band's activity," manager Whittemore said. "She could assert herself, since she's been with the band longer than anyone else, but she always asks permission to do things. She's a great help to a new manager. And she adds a very nice touch to the band--somebody not in authority, but someone you can count...
...FOCAL POINT of The Promise is Lika, the immature 16-year old who discovers that two men love her and then marries the wrong one. Eleanor Lindsay, who plays the part, makes a stunning and no doubt difficult transition from a wide-eyed girl who recoils at the thought of sex to a sad housewife married to a bitter, unsuccessful poet. Miss Lindsay seems somewhat stiff and unsure of herself at times, but with a few more performances this should disappear...
...most ambitious Polk project, sociological profiles of entire cities, was started four years ago. After last year's Detroit riots, for example, Polk supplied the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders with data about the 12th Street area, a focal point of the upheaval. Polk was able to report, among other things, that in each block along 12th Street there were 26 or more households headed by a woman, a fact that suggested many broken homes. Now, Polk has contracts with ten cities, from Pittsburgh to Asheville, N.C., to supply urban statistical data. Since it already has most...