Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Babbitt has recently been the focus of thoroughly researched stories in such publications as the Washington Post, The New Republic, and Time, to name a few. Even if he drops out of the race soon after lowa, his widely acclaimed public policy ideas are going to live on, and will very likely be integrated into the policies of whoever does receive the Democratic nomination. The Crimson usually reports information, not fluff. It is unfortunate that the exception to this rule was made in reporting about a candidate who has so many interesting things to say. Dan Mufson...
...impossible to determine what is right and what is wrong. No Jew in the world should avert their eyes in that way. In the same way that South African racism deserves the special attention of Americans because it shares our claims to western heritage, Israel now must be my focus of criticism because...
...French Novelist Gaston Leroux's 1910 thriller Le Fantome de l'Opera, long a standby for stage and screen adaptations (notably Lon Chaney's 1925 silent horror film). The version devised by Lloyd Webber and Librettist Richard Stilgoe dispensed with much of the novel's narrative superstructure to focus on two characters: the gruesomely disfigured genius who haunts the Paris Opera and the young Swedish soprano, Christine Daae, who is the object of his unholy affections...
...curious watcher of her own slightly out-of-focus life, preserved from the swamps of resentment and depression by mild fatalism and the occasional joint. Episodes are sifted and examined, but not retailed as anecdotes. Some really are conventional stories, or nearly so, with shape and some sort of resolution. Two or three are wholly shapeless, like twelve months out of twelve in the real world. The narrator meets a renowned Indian healer named Rolling Thunder, and nothing happens; then a crazed and menacing religious cultist, and nothing happens again. Even when the narrator's brain- dazed brother, an outlaw...
...that he paid himself $2.7 million over the past two years. He advises such companies as Boeing and Amway Corp. and serves on the boards of half a dozen major companies. Early on, some of his advisers and aides expected him to take a leave from his business and focus solely on campaigning. "I had hoped he'd make a 110% commitment," said one former staffer...