Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Myopia results when the eye's lens (just behind the pupil) cannot bring the incoming light rays into focus on the retina at the back of the eyeball but focuses them at a point in front of it. A myopic youngster's glasses have to be changed every year or two (sometimes oftener) because, as he grows, his eyeball lengthens and the out-of-focus effect gets worse. Though this early myopia usually stabilizes when growth ends, it may have become so severe that glasses could not possibly provide 20/20 or even 20/30 vision; some victims end with...
...Legislative Assistant, Holborn will again focus most of his attention on the foreign policy and conservation areas, but will also share part of regular office burden, such as helping with committee work and correspondence, handling constituents, and dealing with the Press...
...tantrums, the only really bright, vital character is an extremely likable boy who appears in Act II to take the reluctant Reenie to a dance. He commits suicide before Act III. Depressing as this may be, it is the strongest act in the play, and it brings into sharp focus an otherwise loosely meandering world...
...thing about the movie remains in its mastery of the crafts of acting and skillful directing. Actors Huston and Bogart turn in classic performances always given with tongue in cheek and that sense of humor that only a great actor can get away with. The direction and photography give focus to their performance...
...farce moments can be entertaining and brightly cockeyed. The old maid daughter (well played by Martine Bartlett) is both amusing and touching. The son's outbursts can have a mad-dog howl and bite. But so abruptly do things shift focus, so wildly do they change tone, that farce firecrackers negate real bullets, and virtues are turned into faults. Where, by a stylized atmosphere and a sardonic inflection, Waltz of the Toreadors could mate humor with horror, lace wormwood with Vichy. Square Root jangles with false notes. Where, again, Williams could make a dynamic-if uncentered-story...