Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...villa's social calendar is tame in comparison to Bernard Berenson's time, when I Tatti was the focus of the literati set, says Agnes Mongan, the former director of the Fogg Art Museum and curator of prints emeritus...
...hurly-burly of a crowded plot. The pair pick up the trail of a drug-smuggling ring, and the film never quite persuades us that a smart group like this one would turn on the Murtaugh clan in order to scare off Dad. But it is hard to focus on such fine points, given the dark intensity with which Director Richard Donner stages the nonstop action of the film's final 30 minutes. Among movie bone crackers, he is the one who seems to have an advanced degree in chiropractic. If you are going to submit to a working over...
...vote signals that Congress is in no mood to approve an additional $105 million in aid, which the Administration is planning to request in the fall. Says House Speaker Jim Wright: "This exercise is very useful in awakening the Administration to the reality that it has to begin to focus on other ways to serve our interests in Central America...
Extravaganzas like this are what give opera both a good and a bad name. Even though the music drama ought to be the focus of attention, there has always been a fascination with sets, props and costumes. At a conservative museum like the Met, which has not presented a world premiere since Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra in 1967, creativity is necessarily channeled into design. More is more, and the flamboyant Zeffirelli is a perfect symbol of the times. His Turandot works, in part because the fantastic nature of the opera can accommodate his cinematic, cast-of-thousands...
...Israeli commission's first task will be to investigate the Pollard operation thoroughly. Rotenstreich and Tsur, the probers appointed by the Prime Minister, will presumably focus on the state of Israel's intelligence services, plagued as they have been by an unprecedented series of blunders (see box). Some Israelis believe the central problem is that almost four decades after Israel's independence, the country's vaunted security agencies have lost sight of their country's political objectives, of which the most important at the moment is continued close association with...