Word: focalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grand Central's stardusted ceiling has always been a focal point for both esthetic and astrological controversy. On at least one point-placement of Zodiac signs and constellations-Designer James Monroe Hewlett came a cropper. As one letter-to-the-editor writer once informed the New York Times: "The ceiling stars were all put on exactly backward. Their arrangement ii a mirror image. . . . This reversal is, of course, as confusing as a map showing New York on the West Coast and San Francisco on the East. . . otherwise, very accurate...
...four sub-govern ments. The first purpose of this technically coordinated quartering was to keep Germany impotent. Wisely applied by powers solely devoted to that aim, it might achieve the purpose. But defeated Germany was something more than a nation to be held down: it was also a focal area in the never-ending contest for power in Europe, and the world...
...Zossen, only 20 miles from Berlin, a special mission of 650 U.S. heavies spread fire and ruin over a large barracks, reportedly the German General Staff's Headquarters. At Swinemünde, ships loading supplies for Stettin got it hot & heavy. At Oranienburg, a focal rail point for the Oder front, more than 700 U.S. bombers put on the strangle. Berlin was hit with a record U.S. attack (1,300 bombers, 700 fighters) on rail yards and armaments factories. British Mosquitoes went into their fifth week of unbroken nightly bombings of the German capital. Re-rigged R.A.F. Lancasters flew...
...focal character of most Thurber-prose and drawings is a reticent, befuddled, thwarted little man who tries sadly to preserve himself and his reason against a practically worldwide onslaught. Grim psychiatrists, gadgets that "whir and whine and whiz," erratic servants, domineering women, unfriendly dogs, ghosts, foreigners -all are in league to crush the Thurber Male. This harried biped, like Joyce's Leopold Bloom or Mann's Hans Castorp, represents 20th-century Man. To Thurber's devotees, who rate him the greatest U.S. humorist since Mark Twain, his blankly exaggerated reports of their own qualms and misadventures...
Hollywood Canteen (Warner). It was Warner Bros.' idea that in this picture about Hollywood's focal point of patriotism-in-person, stars of all studios should forget their differences and twinkle at each other in the friendliest of spirits. The refusal of the other studios to see it their way had much to do with Warners' withdrawal from the Hays Office. The effect on the picture has been, on the whole, unfortunate. Unable to make it clear that the Canteen is an all-Hollywood affair, Warner Bros, has gone rather more than all out the other...