Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bars, put there, the ad says, by Rockefeller. Another shows an audience falling asleep during a lecture on sewage treatment, making the point that the subject is not interesting, just important, and Rockefeller is taking care of it. Rockefeller will soon step up his TV campaign with an altered focus. Instead of defending his record, he will turn on Goldberg, comparing the former Justice's inexperience in state government with his own three terms in Albany...
Ponte was educated at Harvard ('49) to make grand designs; on a Fulbright in Rome, he studied the relationship of baroque planning to infinite calculus. But when he went to work with Architect I. M. Pei for Developer William Zeckendorf, the realities of real estate narrowed his focus. Helping to plan Zeckendorf's many urban-renewal projects, Ponte learned how even one strategically located building could improve a city's tax structure as well as its aesthetic ambiance. He discovered something else: "The feet have their own reasons. The activities that make a city-shopping, finance...
...hundred juxtaposed masterpieces are as hard to look at as one hundred juxtaposed complementary colors: the viewer jumps from canvas to canvas. Where the Met and the MFA could have helped the viewer focus, they have not- they have made no point with their exhibition. Where one could have said, "the cake tasted great," one can only say, "the cake looked beautiful with 100 candles...
...Ervin did schedule hearings for his Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights for October 6-8. These hearings were to focus on "privacy, computers, and Government data banks, including the Army's civil disturbance program for surveillance of civilians." They were postponed at the last minute due to "pressing Senate business." On October 6, Ervin, in announcing the postponement of the hearings, stated...
Petri is a sardonic stylist whose freewheeling camera can perform some incredible acrobatics. In A Quiet Place, it weaves around, goes quickly in and out of focus, moves jarringly from one object to another, all to evoke a sense of edgy anxiety...