Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walt Disney's version of Lord of the Flies. A tribe of deserted children enact with Durkheimian accuracy the ritual of their history for Max, then declare him to be their messiah. Max finds this scene to be quite annoying, as does the audience. Max states himself what the focus of a Mad Max movie should be when he declares that he is not a childrens' messiah, but rather, "the guy who keeps Mr. Death in his pocket." (Would that the directors had kept to that focus...
Attention must now focus not only on further rules and refinements but also on the reform of the system itself. Next on the agenda are freshman eligibility for varsity competition, reconsideration of "Proposition 48" (which sets academic requirements for freshman student-athletes), drug testing, and further tightening and enforcing of academic progress and "good standing" rules. Beyond these changes, the NCAA should also be looking to eliminate freshman competition at the varsity level in big-money sports such as football and basketball...
...emphasis on writing is helpful for putting ideas in perspective and developing a way to focus on the issues and cut out what is extraneous," says O.D. Basinski...
Television news was at the center of the two-week drama, and its conduct remains the focus of debate. At issue (among other offenses): the relentless scrutiny of the hostages' families. In question: the medium's ability to place newsworthiness above audience pull...
...Potemkin, her spectacles awry. These and other images begin as clues, holes in the social fabric, and are then worked up, gradually, into emblems. The elliptical lenses of the nursemaid's spectacles, for example, turn into bigger ellipses, without a face behind them; like punctuation marks commanding one to focus and look, they stud the painting of the '70s. Muybridge's wrestlers become Bacon's signs for sexual battle. But they shed their documentary purpose, and in doing so open the way to another discourse of figures. When impelled by strong emotion -- as in the Triptych May-June 1973, which...