Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This terrain is decorated with superb internal communications, which favor the defender. Moscow is the focus of ten radiating railroads, and even though the Germans have cut six of those roads, the stumps are still available for throwing troops into this or that sector of the front. There are, besides, eleven trunk highways and numberless small roads running north, west and south from the city. Moscow teems with busses, trucks and cars available for urgent transport...
...serial in the accepted sense, Against the Storm has a score or so characters, European and American, whose lives touch in haphazard couples or clusters as human lives do. Its focus is Harper University at Hawthorne and an English professor with his wife, his daughters and their friends...
...today's confusion, the cadence of The MARCH OF TIME has the sane, steady, rhythmic beat of a metronome. It is a weekly slice of Now, the Present, calculated to give all America the picture of tremendous events in sharp focus...
...Focus of this celebration was a huge 13-foot, beetle-browed, unfinished marble statue of Lexicographer Webster which stared glumly down at them through a surrounding clutter of scaffolding...
Like most of the cinema's attempts to remake successful plays, Retirement is long on dialogue and plot, short on action. Although Cameraman George Barnes does his cinematic best to focus the story through his lens, his range is restricted mostly to devising new angles and lighting for the same old people in the same old room. He makes a noble attempt. The atmosphere of Retirement is all melodrama and a moor wide...