Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hananiah Harari is a slick, meticulous commercial artist whose sharp-focus Coca-Cola ads, whisky displays (Old Sunny Brook) and magazine covers (FORTUNE) look even more real than the photographs he often paints from. He is also a solemn abstractionist. Last week Harari's "serious" paintings were on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery. They looked like nothing so much as houses built of cards for a game unknown to Hoyle...
...magnification of 6,000 to 1. Electron microscopes, developed about the same time, give real magnifications up to 50,000 or 100,000 by using enlargements of negatives. This microscope disproved an old law concerning the limit of magnification of light instruments, and also showed that the limits of focus of a microscope are considerably smaller than had been supposed...
...plot progression is a series of reflections in a three-faced mirror. Through the mirror--Constance--are presented the thoughts and experiences of Henri, a French soldier, his wife Denise and brother, Ferdinand, during the period of the French Resistance. The plot is in sharp focus all the way. But if the greater part of the story is concentrated, the climax is too diffuse. Instead of having a three-way plot solution in a single unified scene with Constance, the portrayal of each character reaches a separate culmination in a scene alone with her. The audience is left to wonder...
...honor restored when another man, one Richard Schroeder, was found guilty of the crime. In 1947, a German film company took this incident and with the superb acting for which German motion pictures have always been noted, used it in an excellent film, "The Affair Blum," as a focus for the anti-semitism in the German character which Hitler later worked up into the frenzy of Nazism...
...economic assistance, on which the Acheson-Bidault-Schuman talks will focus, can combat Viet Namese Communism only if dollars will follow new freedoms granted the Bao-Dai regime by the French government. Though French troops are needed to hold off the immediate threat of Communist rule, and end of French curbs on the Bao-Dai regime can win nationalist support from Viet Minh to the present government...