Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finding the Focus...
...York is very bad, partly because of the strange idiom he was working in, partly on account of his often-expressed desire to say something, to picture something, in a completely new, and preferably shocking, way. It is not so much that his metaphors and imagery slip out of focus, as Roy Campbell suggests, but they are sometimes strained and absurdly disjunct, unsequential and incoherent. Some of his worst lines, such...
...since the great subcontinent of India was ruled by a unique commercial enterprise called the East India Company. A century ago that rule came to a bloody end with the Indian Mutiny. In a splendid narrative, British Newsman James Leasor has brought a bewilderingly confused mass of material into focus where it belongs-on the Red Fort of Delhi and the old walled city where the last of the Moguls sat in splendor and squalor amid his treasure, eunuchs and his 700-year past...
...imposing scenery and the process in which it is filmed. Todd-AO uses a large curved screen which, however, has a less awkward shape than that used in Cinemascope. The great advantage of the process is that objects in the background are every bit as clear and in focus as those near the camera. It is far the most impressive of the recent proliferation of movie gadgets, and alone is nearly worth the Saxon Theater's outrageous prices...
...society as complex as the U.S., it takes more than one man, or one newspaper, or one committee to focus the national attention on a serious problem. While the U.S. Senate's McClellan committee has produced the national headlines on labor racketeering, it was vigilant newsmen, from Des Moines to Portland, Ore. and back to Scranton, Pa., who sparked the Senate investigation and provided the scattered local fragments (TIME, June 4, et seq.) that fell into a nationwide kaleidoscope of corruption and violence. The pattern of partnership showed sharply this week as Senator John McClellan's men wound...