Word: focalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been trying to bring the neighborhoods together, and the Square should be their logical focal point," he explains. In July, Smith sponsored a three-day sidewalk sale in the Square, and he plans to organize similar events in the future. "We're trying to dress it up as much as possible...
...latest trend in disco will not necessarily change all that, but it is still something of a shocker. Disco is going live-o. At the start, the focal point-of the average discotheque was that man in the glass booth-the one with the earphones on, the head bobbing rhythmically, the hands leaping adroitly from twin turntables to control sequencers. He was, and still is, the disc jockey, busily programming your dancing pleasure. Did the little lady want to dance the Hustle or the Muscle? Ol' Deejay had a ditty for every kitty and her boogying big daddy...
Whitlam, speaking at the Australian-American Ball in Sydney, Australia last year, commended "this proposal to the great companies and corporation--which operate in the two countries. Some of them, I trust, will see the chair as a focal point for further research endowments in their own names in disciplines of special interest to them...
Nonetheless, Carter's undisputed lead made him a focal point of the conference, an object of intense speculation. Behind closed doors, Young, Paterson, Hatcher, California's Congresswoman Yvonne Burke and other black leaders met to hear Carter. According to one participant, Carter declared: "I can win the primaries and I can win the nomination. But I can't win the election without the support of blacks outside of Georgia." To get that support, Carter agreed to: 1) appoint blacks-from a list submitted by the black Democrats-to the 14 policy task forces that are drawing...
Manifestations, Arthur Mitchell's first new ballet in five years, was the choreographic focal point on opening night. Under a canopy of stars in a silver Eden, Eve sprang from the stomach of Adam, reclining on aluminum mounds. The audience gasped with pleasure as tiny Susan Lovelle unfolded on point while Homer Bryant turned her around slowly on one leg like a potter molding clay on his wheel. But it was willowy Lydia Abarca, a dancer of pristine lyricism, and Paul Russell, all crackling magnetic energy, who were the undisputed stars of the evening. In William Dollar...