Word: focalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the focal point of the movie is the affair of the young lovers, it risks seeming coarse. Both Phillipe and Miss Presle deserve credit for avoiding this weakness through their fine performances. Throughout the fibu, Phillipe maintains a delicate balance between adult physical passion and adolescent instability. Miss Presle, a beautiful and sincere actress, appears convincingly confused as she depicts the feelings of the subjugated bourgeoise. Excellent support is given the stars by the tender performance of Jean Debucourt as the father of the school boy, by the well portrayed shock and righteous indignation of Denise Grey...
...Taft-Hartley Law, focal point of last spring's bitter, congressional struggle, doesn't enter the picture too strongly. The steelworkers have already hold up their strike 77 days, just three short of the cooling-off period provided for under the national emergency clause of T-II. The special presidential board was exactly the same as that provided for under the law--and was equally unable to make a binding report. Since President Truman is unlikely to use the injunction (the unions feel that their voluntary delays would make it grossly unfair, and Truman probably agrees), the issue would seem...
...Statesman and Nation's Desmond Shawe-Taylor wore a this-hurts-me-more-than-you look: "The grumble that events are too many and the day too crowded is merely frivolous . . . More serious is the complaint that this festival has no natural focal point, as Salzburg has in Mozart, Bayreuth in Wagner, and Aldeburgh in Britten; this is true and perhaps a pity . . . but what sort of festival could be constructed out of purely Scottish material...
Philadelphia's Dr. Edward Weiss added that the chronic rheumatic whose trouble starts in the mind suffers from "chronic resentment," but does not realize it. The thing for doctors to do in such cases, he said, is to look for a "focal conflict" as well as for a focal infection. Otherwise, the doctor might do the patient harm by "well-meaning but mistaken" efforts to find a nonexistent physical cause; the real trouble might be an embittered marriage rather than an abscessed tooth...
...foot of his bed (which now stands in his studio so that he can work propped up in it) was the focal point of Matisse's new labors: a working model of the chapel he is designing for a Dominican home for convalescent girls not far from his house in Vence...