Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learned. Sets and costumes changed. "It was Dunkerque," recalls Routledge. "I never knew how I would get to the end of the show. Sometimes I didn't know which way I was facing." Adds Howard: "I couldn't sleep or eat. I found it hard to focus my mind on what I was doing onstage. I became a zombie, an automaton." But, says Howard, the endless changes that were made in the show were only "like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic...
Furthermore, quotas promote racism by encouraging people to think and speak in terms of racial and ethnic groups. The widespread use of quotas will cause people to perceive others in these terms instead of as individuals. As the focus on race grows, so does racism...
...interesting thing with the networks is, of course, that we keep forgetting: this is the first time we've ever had a truly national press...we are in the position here in 24 minutes of covering the world. We can't keep our focus on these things, like gay rights, even though we may be interested in them. I think it's something that should be exposed, that we should be talking about...once every ten months we get a piece on, that some development is prominent enough for us to give it attention. But we can't keep...
Accounts of the dispute are as divided as the arguments themselves. But it is clear that the charges and countercharges served to focus the tensions that both sides agree have characterized CAST-HDC relations in recent months...
...Damned. Lucino Visconti's epic film about the rise and fall of a German industrial family producing heavy arms in Hitler's Germany (modeled on the Krupps) is among the best historical films ever made. It provides a particularly good focus on the connection between sexual perversity and power in Nazi Germany, and the representation of the Night of the Long Knives is extremely chilling. Helmut Berger finds his ideal role as the mother-fixated incompetent heir, and the raven haired young girl he molests is enough to turn anyone into a pedophile. Peter Kaplan...