Word: focalizing
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...reconstructed by Mann, we see the increasingly hidden world of early gay Hollywood: the actors--Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro--and the people behind the scenes, such as director George Cukor and jet-setting composer Cole Porter, the two focal points of gay male Hollywood society in the 1930s...
...Championships and next weekend's dual meet against Princeton were focal points in the swimmers' and divers' inspiration last Saturday...
...Bonnie Honig has deep enemies. She is the focal point. She had her enemies and they took her down, and having done so, they don't have the political clout to push a conservative [Berkowitz] through...
...bagels in between--I always find myself surprised by the vast gulf in bagel quality between the two cities I call home. I may have learned to suppress the observation and block it out. And who could blame me? When done right, the bagel can serve as the focal point for an entire diet. But in the hands of lesser baker...it's nothing more than a carbohydrate-rich sandwich fragment...
...lack of medical insurance didn't seem very important after he arrived last week, making Henry Ford the focal point of a major international news story. While a hospital spokeswoman kept the crowds of reporters at bay, doctors gave the 47-year-old exile a thorough going-over. He was suffering from high blood pressure, and he needed glasses, but otherwise he was remarkably healthy for someone incarcerated so long in a country not noted for humane treatment of prisoners...