Word: focuses
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...million or more Americans who followed the proceedings each day on television, Chairman William Fulbright and his colleagues offered no compelling new arguments for or against the defense of Viet Nam. Yet the dispassionate eyes and ears of electronic journalism did help bring into focus the complex and contrasting personalities of those who chart U.S. policy and those who challenge it. On that score, at least, the hearings' anti-Administration sponsors last week could only regret the cameras' unblinking presence. For, unlike the previous week, when the committee's star witnesses-retired General James Gavin and Sovietologist...
...aging columnist and the California editorialist hardly seemed to be talking about the same thing. But their disparate readings of the Hawaiian conference were symptomatic of the whole U.S. press. The conference, said the Detroit Free Press, was a disaster that "brought into sharp focus the schizoid personality of our foreign policy." That wasn't the conference reported by the Washington Post, which found that it "did what it obviously was intended to do from the beginning." It brought together "officials who are going to have to work together if the war is to be skillfully conducted...
Inner Logic. While the controversy raged back and forth, the TV networks hardly knew where to focus their cameras next. On top of some memorable footage from the battlefield, there was the conference-to say nothing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings where Administration critics were having their day. CBS finally decided that continuous coverage of the Senate hearings was consuming too much time, and consigned that part of the dialogue to evening selections from the tapes. The move stirred up something of an intra-network flap, but it had its defenders in the press. The conference, said...
...focus of the meet will be in the 600-yard dash, the high jump, and in the relays. The Crimson should split the first two of these events and the relays should pose no problems...
...problems with his images, problems I found very disturbing despite the apparently secondary importance of image to Demy's conception of this film. To use color the way he wants to, he needed lots of light, and had to shoot with his camera wide open. This gave him serious focus problems, and sometimes Umbrellas gets as fuzzy as a home movie...