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...description, they might as well have been taken in America) depict the moral bankruptcy and decadence of the 1930's in terms of space and the objects that occupy it. An opium pipe, a negligent smoker of that pipe, and the chaise lounge upon which she sleeps are the focal point of "An Opium Smoker Asleep," which simultaneously chronicles and criticizes the social norms of the 1930's Paris demimonde. Lighting is dark and the focus is dim: the space is uninviting and, on top of that, there's no room among the clutter anyway...
...Scene," "Character Studies," seems to work in the opposite direction, analyzing the extent to which people affect and even craft their own environments; space responds to objects rather than defining them. Danny Lyon's "Bikeriders" has four particularly surly looking men straddling their man machines imposingly: they are the focal point and the environment is significant only to the extent that it complements and enhances the bikers' presence...
...despite the joking comments, the pair’s service was the focal point of the night, with both men honored to receive the Herter Memorial Award...
...Elizabeth Rosenthal’s Sept. 9 New York Times article, she wrote, “In a year in which record numbers of Chinese have applied for visas—and been rejected —the American Embassy visa section [in Beijing] has suddenly become a focal point of anti-American resentment, its decisions derided as arbitrary and unfair...
...does not bode well for Woodland that his case has become a focal point of U.S.-Japan relations or that the Japanese media continue to cover every foolish escapade by U.S. servicemen. And there are many such episodes. During a single week in late July, one U.S. serviceman in Okinawa fired a BB gun at pizza-delivery boys, another tipped over a stranger's motor scooter, another set fire to a car, and a Marine lance corporal was sentenced to five years for arson attacks on stores...