Word: focalizing
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...arches of the mosque reading the Koran, but starting with dawn, the mosque fills up with worshippers flocking in for morning prayers, the first of the required daily five prayers. Then everybody faces the walls of the Ka'ba and prays towards it. The Ka'ba functions as the focal point toward which Moslems all over the world stand in prayer to profess their subjugation...
Rosemarie Sansone finished a creditable eighth in the council race and her campaign became the focal point for reformers. State Reps. Barney Frank '61 and Elaine Noble backed her and she quickly took on the mantle of the proverbial young, fresh face. Her campaign, however, never went beyond a smile and the promise to talk with people. She supported the two referenda questions and sought out moderate reformers, yet not once during the campaign did she offer striking proposals for change. Instead, she presented a flexible image as if she were starring in a replay of the 1976 Carter presidential...
...romance between McKie and the female Keila Jedrick, the most cunning of the hostile planet's products, is the book's focal point. Though the two have their good moments, especially when they unite their minds, this relationship fails to carry the book with the necessary emotion...
...Blood) Brooks-should decide to bring this trash-posing-as-fiction to the screen also shows at once a keen eye for the commercial and a readiness to pursue his art within the constraining framework of a depressing narrative. In taking on a character like Theresa Dunn as the focal point of his film, Brooks has confirmed an affinity for the dark underside of the individual initially suggested by his adaptation of Truman Capote's book on the massacre of a Kansas farm family. Such subject matter arouses doubts as to the director's artistic aspirations...
Shooting a picture is remarkably simple. The tapestry, or any other object to be photographed, is set up exactly 3.9 meters (13 ft.) away from the focal point of the lens, that distance being double the focal length of the lens. Then the tapestry is illuminated with banks of lights (see diagram) while, inside the camera, technicians fine-focus the image on a screen 3.9 meters behind the focal point of the lens. Next, they lower a huge sheet of standard Polaroid negative stock, hold it flat against the screen with a vacuum pump and trip the shutter, thus exposing...