Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, you know, it's really a good thing right before you go onstage, to focus for a minute on what you're supposed to be doing and what you're supposed to be feeling...
...particularly nice thing about this kind of play for an actor is that there's a great stress. as there should be in all companies. on putting a company show together: but there is also a real focus on individual performances. You have to use your own equipment and range to the utmost with these parts, which is very satisfying for the individual...
Though Soviet audiences see the U.S. mostly through the astigmatic lens of ideology, some of the picture does come through in reasonably clear focus. Despite dogma, a new sophistication prevails, most notably in the attitude that for all of America's failings, there is much to be learned from the American experience. In recent months, Soviet media have carried an unusual amount of material about...
...dispute: a progressive faced the opposition of an archbishop (Karl Alter of Cincinnati, now retired) who felt that things were moving too fast. The Glenmarys' mother superior, now Miss Catherine Rumschlag, proposed that the liberal majority of sisters go secular. Today the group functions as a service organization called FOCUS, and does teaching and social work in three regional centers throughout Appalachia...
...sexual objectifictaion is a focus of our quest for freedom. It is precisely that which we are not supposed to share with each other. Learning how to be open and good with each other sexually is part of our liberation. And one obvious distinction: objectification of sex for us is something we choose to do among ourselves, while for women it is imposed by their oppressors...