Word: focuses
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Sweet Talk. A genial, sometimes bumbling Georgia millionaire whose family fortune (mainly from textiles) is estimated at $40 million, Callaway is the focus of investigations by the FBI, a Senate Interior subcommittee and the Civil Aeronautics Board. The primary accusation was that on his final day as Army Secretary last July, he persuaded officials of the Agriculture Department to review a ruling by its subsidiary, the U.S. Forest Service. The original ruling had barred Crested Butte's promoters from leasing 2,000 acres of federal land on which to build new ski runs, which would have tripled the size...
Holy of Holies. The reason for the debate was a storm of demonstrations, strikes, riots and other political protests that spread through West Bank cities and towns last week. The initial focus of the Arab discontent was a religious issue: a decision handed down two months ago by a Jerusalem magistrate, Ruth Or, that Jews had a right to pray on the Temple Mount, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon and hence Judaism's holiest site. It is also the site of Al Aqsa mosque, revered by Moslems as the third most sacred spot in Islam, after...
...wife's scarf by looking at her nose, but the center of his field of vision is a dark, impenetrable cloud. The prospects of his learning new music are nil. "I must rely entirely on my memory," he says. Fortunately that memory is photographic and still in focus...
...principals?Robards, Jack Warden, who played Metro-editor Harry Rosenfeld, and Martin Balsam, who played Managing Editor Howard Simons?had to be present on the set every day because Pakula had decided to shoot the city room sequences in "deep focus." This meant that even when these players did not have any lines, they were visible in the background of most scenes. They coped as cheerfully as they could with the situation. Robards would often simply retire to "his"?that is, Bradlee's?office and read the books that had presumably helped shape the character...
...Angeles (circ. 100,000), now owned by a medical-book publisher, was once eagerly sought by New York's Felker. Los Angeles has developed over the past 15 years into a smooth, narrow-focus magazine that is deliberately preoccupied with helping its readers to "get the good life together" and, like many of its affluent readers, only mildly concerned with Los Angeles politics and problems. "City government is just not a spectator sport here as it is in other cities," explains Editor Geoff Miller, 39, who joined Los Angeles shortly after graduating from U.C.L.A. The sport in Los Angeles...