Word: focus
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...most guy-oriented comedies, originality is the merest wrinkle. (What if this 40-year-old man were ... a virgin?) Give writer-director Jody Hill two cheers for asking: What if we did a workplace comedy, and the focus of our attention and sympathy were on a fellow - played by Rogen, everyone's favorite jovial slob - who is this close to the simmering psycho Robert De Niro played in Taxi Driver? The gun love, the quiet surliness, the loner status, the head whisperings, the mistaken fashioning of other people's motives into paranoid scenarios - all echo the violent cabbie in Martin...
...need for such changes. But, with the imminent departure of Nancy Mitchnick, one of only two painting instructors in the department, the university appears to be moving in the wrong direction. Undergraduates already have a dismayingly small number of studio art courses to choose from, even fewer of which focus specifically on painting. Moreover, studio courses are generally limited to 12 students, and, given the limited number of courses, priority must be given to VES concentrators. This situation makes it very difficult for non-VES concentrators to have the experience of taking a studio art course during their time...
...Although the squad has the advantage of familiarity with its opponent, the Crimson will focus on the broader goal of team improvement rather than results...
...love racing on our home course,” he said. “In terms of weather we’ll see how it goes, but we’ll just have to focus and row our own race...
...Offense, that’s our main focus,” Crimson coach Jenny Allard said. “[Engman] was effective on the mound, but I think we could have hit the ball better...