Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orgasm is portrayed with a close-up of the woman's twisted face or, less frequently, with an out-of-focus pan through the trees or across the ocean. The latter is not unlike short story accounts submitted by Cliffies to English C sections. Occasionally an oral-genital act is implied, though always with a shot of the passive partner's face...
...Mailer, for that is what Mailer really was at that moment as he was being arrested. This is the justification for this kind of personalized journalism. It is the answer to the doubt Mailer expresses in his piece: To write an intimate history of an event which places its focus on a central figure who is not central to the event, is to inspire immediate questions about the competence of the historian...
...focus of most of the attention Harvard's track team is finally receiving has been centered on senior Jim Baker and sophomore Roy Shaw, who have taken turns this season deflating Harvard's indoor record in the mile. Shaw, in perhaps the season's most touted performance, ran a brilliant 4:02.8 mile at Dartmouth a week ago, without the aid of a pacer, to break his own University record...
...unless you happened to be an Arab or an Israeli, and a pop war novel about it is a provocation no truce commission could have been expected to prevent. Meyer Levin (Compulsion) has fired off a rooty-tooty, pot-woozy, never-trust-anyone-whose-eyes-still-focus novel about how it wasn't in the Sinai campaign...
Because of the large number of paintings in the exhibition, some limitation of focus is helpful in their evaluation. One approach is to concentrate on the Blocks' very rich collection of portraits, including Degas' distant "Young Man with a Hat," Seurat's study for a "Woman Powdering Herself," the famous Matisse "The Young Sailor" (version two) and the even better-known van Gogh "Self-Portrait," showing his bandaged ear. In addition, there are three sensitive Vuillards, one a "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" in a style set between the thick modelling of Manet and the pointillist inheritance of Impressionism...