Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cinema's two most popular genres--the whodunit and the skin flick. In the sixties film festivals tended to showcase a great actor or director, and the nearly constant Bergman and Bogart festivals at places like the Brattle Square are holdovers from those days. Now they tend to focus on particular genres. These festivals aren't Hitchoock festivals or even Radley Metzger festivals; they aim to show the whole range of detective films and erotic films, the good, the bad, and the commercial, the typical and the deviant...
Flanigan plans to spend much of his time on his old specialty, international banking, and its new focus, the Middle East oil countries. "They certainly have the money," he says, "and our job is to put together those who have it with those...
...factory schools. More than 1 million "barefoot doctors," so called to symbolize the once primitive nature of their job and equipment, are at work in the countryside. Another creation of the Cultural Revolution, they staff small production team clinics and seek to provide minimum care for everyone, rather than focus limited medical resources on expensive urban facilities...
...Malgar, Colombia. Installed as President in a bloodless 1953 golpe, Rojas ruled in dictatorial fashion until an appetite for graft (he acquired at least nine ranches as President) eroded army support and led to his ouster in 1957. The next year he returned from exile and became the focus of opposition to the ruling Liberal-Conservative National Front, nearly returning to power in the hotly contested election...
...spiritual onanism that leads these fools, these mindless children, to glorify themselves, or the self and its own ignorance." She is also physically stirred by Cogan, a shaggy "Montaigne in love beads, discarding whole areas of Western culture that do not serve him." Laura counterattacks with her "small focus of self-knowledge, the sweep of history," watches her admonitions founder against his coltish arrogance and her own proliferating self-doubts...