Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Choosing to focus on the company as a whole rather than on the leading dancers, Mazo describes the gruelling company class which begins each day, the hectic rehearsals, the technical preparation of the state, the performances, the union disputes, the endless financial problems. Mazo also recounts some of the tricks of the trade-how an emergency cast change can prove workable, for instance: "standing in the wings, you can hear dancers whispering instructions to their partners, smiling more widely than ever so the audience won't see their lips moving...
...Colloquium Room on the first floor of Agassiz House in Radcliffe Yard at 3:30 p.m. Walker is now working on a book on American women poets, volume she hopes will detail the social influences on women poets and examine their lives and poetry closely. Her lecture will focus on a theme that has fascinated women poets for years: the sanctuary. Walker will discuss Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale, Elinor Wylie and Sylvia Plath...
...thing" is the way the heroine defines her goal in life.) Unfortunately, the clutter hides the story. Brooks spends more time shuttling extras in and out of scenes than he does developing his main characters. Only the romantic interludes are unambiguous: when Brooks lets his camera go out of focus, or shows a couple walking along a deserted beach, there's no doubt that love is leaden...
...enzymes to slice up and reassemble pieces of genes in the form of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. By mixing DNA from viruses, bacteria, and animals, molecular biologists can create novel hybrid organisms. Fear about the creation and accidental release of dangerous new forms of viruses and bacteria has been one focus of the recombinant DNA debate...
...History courses would focus on the historical contest of contemporary problems or on historical topics that would illustrate "the complexity of events--purposeful and accidental--that shape people's lives," he said...