Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading man that her performance, first in a year, seems more brilliant than it is. One excellent sequence at the beginning-a suburban dinner party at which the host (Adrian Morris) bullies his wife by patronizing her-is true enough (to put the rest of the picture out of focus...
...director of the motion picture felt obliged to change several of the sequences for the purpose of adaptation. Such alterations as appear, nevertheless, fail to add to the effectiveness of the plot and often obscure the action. Things seem a bit too hurried. There is not the careful focus and delicate shading in the tempo of the action which helped John Halliday win success on the stage...
During the long bull market, the New York Stock Exchange became a focus of interest to tens of thousands of new small investors and speculators all over the land. Since taking over the presidency from Edward Henry Harriman Simmons in 1930, Mr. Whitney has not had time to travel so far & wide through the land making speeches as did his predecessor (only eight formal speeches in 16 months). But had he spoken last week in Houston or Minneapolis, Atlanta or Detroit, Denver, Seattle or San Francisco, he would have had thoroughly attentive audiences. The place where he did speak...
...Showing the left and right pictures simultaneously or alternately. A person by straining his attention can learn to focus each eye on the proper view. Or, if he sits at a certain focal distance and angle from the screen, he can look through a stereoscope. Or he can hold a mechanical pair of lorgnettes before his eyes. The lorgnettes, which John Bellamy Taylor of General Electric used over 20 years ago, have shutters which rapidly and alternately blink the view of each eye. Viewing devices with special lenses, mirrors or prisms also permit stereoscopic effects. But each person...
...reality of city life. Up and down the tenement stairs pass these people -- a drunk, piloting himself upward with splendid balance, and a street-walker hurrying to receive a caller, while below a gray-faced little woman phones to her sister of the death of their mother. The focus of interest is clearly upon these characters as human beings and not as the protagonists in some vast cosmic mystery...