Word: focalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dream, apparently, had been to produce, as a sequel to My Fair Lady, a My Fabulous Lady based on the life and loves of Gabrielle Chanel, the great Parisian designer who is now a fairly fabulous 86 years old. What went wrong? The initial concept was wrong. The focal point of the fashion business is a dress. In and of itself, a dress is not dramatic. A parade of animated mannequins such as one gets in Coco does not make dresses dramatic either. A group of women milling about onstage always looks rather like a herd, and that is scarcely...
Although there are in all fifteen OBU demands, they all center around three focal issues-the issues that the University has been least willing to deal with...
THERE is little in the life of William Laws Calley Jr., whom G.I.s of his old Americal Division now refer to noncommittally as "that lieutenant." to suggest that he would become the focal figure of controversy in so horrible a nightmare as the My Lai massacre. To his hometown friends in Miami, he has always been known as "Rusty," for his reddish-tinged brown hair. He was born in Miami 26 years ago, and grew up with his three sisters in a two-story stucco house in the city's northeastern section. Mrs. Arnold Minkley, who lived across the street...
While I waited, I wandered about among the medics, hoping that they might be one of the focal points of the action that was about to take place. (And, anyway, since I had now become an affinity group of one, it was also quite the circumspect thing to do.) But the medics were mostly volunteers, with the kind of nervous enthusiasm common among first year section men. They kept giving every one around them suspicious looks...
...Redgate was the focal point of the confrontation between police and demonstrators, and the other families offered symbolic resistance after her decision to leave on her own. Miss Frances O'Brian did not leave until she received the warrant from the deputy sheriffs. She said that she wanted "to prove in principle that we didn't leave voluntarily." Mrs. Mary Casey likewise did not leave until the warrant was served...