Word: focus
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lyrical yet powerful riffs. “Fork in the Road” opens with “When Worlds Collide,” announced by sets of heavily distorted guitar chords, the garage-rock sound of which feels appropriate given the album’s focus on cars. Most of the songs feel like they should be played full-volume while driving with the sunroof down through deserted highways of the Mid-West, rocking some shades, all the while bobbing along to the rhythm. This playfulness comes through in Young’s lyrics as well. The album?...
...rest with a yes.” With its meandering multiple plot lines, the film ends up very much like its main character: bipolar, aimless, and shameless. “Observe and Report” fails to make up its mind as to where it should place its focus, zigzagging between characters and events. As a result, the movie seems a little disjointed at times, pausing on extreme high-angle close ups of Ronnie’s face as he contemplates his life, before moving to hand-held shots that follow him as he runs after terrified skateboarders...
...that compose Codrescu’s “guide” are thick with allusions to forgotten female poets and obscure psychedelic rock bands. It’s hard to read them without wanting to know more, especially with little prior knowledge of Codrescu’s main focus: the 1920s cultural movement Dada.But further research only confounds points that Codrescu seemingly asserts with authority. The critical blurbs at the beginning of the book—“This book made me feel naked, and that’s one thing I know,” from...
...engineering and applied sciences at SEAS, failed to convince Murray to join his specialty, he did manage to help get Murray to join his school, where she appears poised to continue his interdisciplinary vision for SEAS.PHYSICS FOR ALLMurray says she was attracted to SEAS by its interdisciplinary nature and focus on applied science—while always keeping the question “Why am I doing this?” in mind.“We have some serious problems that Harvard can address, including global health, clean energy technologies, figuring out what is happening to the climate system...
...Ayers says. “That kind of issue should not be visited on a superficial level.”The Adams Pool Theatre creates a close environment in which to relate people’s personal stories in a deep and effective way. Using spotlights to focus on the character who is speaking at the time, “The Exonerated” is performed simply yet profoundly in this antiqutated theater that the staff decided would be perfect for the atmosphere it exudes. “We wanted to use the Adams Pool Theatre, because...