Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foot ice slide at Holyoke Center was the focus of local shoppers' attention last Saturday at Winterfest '86, a weekend festival that brought hundreds of people to Harvard Square...
...witness said police drove people off the streets with clubs and tear gas in Cap Haitien, a north-coast port that has been a focus of growing protest against the Duvalier dynasty on this Caribbean island...
...like cruel landlords. Yes, I know that using the grates to get rid of the street people doesn't solve the problem, doesn't make it all just "go away." However, I urge Leverett students, other Harvard students, and members of the community to look beyond the grates and focus their attention not on the ironic and repulsive symbolism of the bars, but on the underlying problem of providing adequate shelter for the homeless while ensuring the safest possible environment for students like themselves. Carolyn M. Martin...
...Billerica, where the average age of the prisoners is 23, a volunteer tutor will not usually work one-on-one with the same prisoner week after week, Vanasse says. "They switch us around. The focus is on getting contact form the outside, not forming personal relationships," Vanasse says...
Much of the film is shot to allow great depth of field, keeping both the foreground and the background of the picture in focus. This technique--pioneered by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane--is known as "deep focus." The use of deep focus lends a strong sense of realism to the film, portraying simultaneously the characters and their environment. Kusturica also imports some techniques from the genre of film noir, especially the notion of the woman-as-temptress (in this case the mistress), and the practice of photographing her image in mirrors...