Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best pictures of the year-a frank and intelligent drama, powerfully directed and beautifully played. The true subtleties of classroom torture, as distinct from the simple brutalities, have never before been shown on the screen with such penetration. But about midway, Torment goes into double focus. What began so firmly, with such compassionate reality, becomes embroiled in mere horror-melodrama. In the long run, by trying to handle two things at once, the picture loses its grip on both...
Plans for the Jubilee moved into more definite focus last night as the committee announced a further widening of its program for the all-college weekend...
...focus of public attention might help improve the situation further; but mining would remain the most dangerous trade a man could follow. The point was that last week John Lewis-a man who has spoken much but done little about mine safety-was using the hard lot and misfortunes of his miners to wreak revenge on a Government which had dared bring...
...Marquand novel, was a cleverly genteel variant on the water-drip torture. The story told, in deadpan style, of the gradual destructiveness of a whole mode of life. Like the play which was made from the novel, the movie sacrifices the subtleties of gradualism for dramatic frame and focus...
...trouble with this kind of fancification of plot is that it blurs the issues-already sufficiently dramatic-which it is supposed to bring into more dramatic focus. When one unnecessary complication leads to another, they become progressively phonier. And for no good enough reason, these nice English people are represented here not merely as a confused couple, but also as squabbling M.P.s...