Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quest. Seldom, in fact, has any political announcement detonated such shock waves or so rapidly reversed the positions of two men-in this case, Romney and Nelson Rockefeller. But the result for the Republican Party last week was clarification rather than confusion. Now, at last, the G.O.P. can focus on a choice between its two strongest alternatives: New Yorkers Rockefeller and Richard Nixon...
Sometimes the camera holds too long. A motorcycle idles along for ninety seconds, a dull out-of-focus journey, a bum trip. In another scene six consecutive point-of-view shots reach for tedium. But the hiatus of time often catches qualities unnoticed by a tick-tock eye. A long closeup--almost a still--of Samantha's fragile face penetrates to the madonna calm and compassion she possesses. The epiphany is not just the result of Maeve Kinkead's fine acting. Hunter takes the time to look, really look--and we see. When Anastasia washes body paint off her legs...
...program this year is no longer primarily concerned with helping freshmen adjust to their first few months here, Paul, W. Sugarman '69, one of the Associates, said. Rather, the focus will be on the Spring semester of the freshman year and the Fall semester of the sophomore year...
...teachers but as college administrators. They knew that they would have to vote on a proposition which would involve the degree to which they felt it necessary to police the political activities of the students. These faculty members had to re-appraise their own positions and to re-focus their own concept of themselves as administrators of students' morality. They also had to assess the importance to them of the closeness of the college "family," and where they saw their position in preserving it and their own definition of how a family is best preserved, by the degree of permissiveness...
Screen Test Mario Montez is the interview of a transvestite who wants to play a 14-year-old gypsy girl in a cheap reenactment of The Hunehback of Notre Dame. Again one shot by the camera, this time of Mario's out-of-focus head, and this time with sound. It takes around an hour and a half to end itself with conversation that's just incredibly obscene...