Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flimsy plots demand a suspension of belief too great for the audience to bear; in this case the leaden weight of an overdrawn script buries the dedicated acting jobs that try to save the show. Christopher Hampton's Savages, unfortunately, is more fundamentally flawed, for it founders when its focus--a Brazilian Indian tribe on the verge of extinction--obscures or perhaps just misses entirely all the other elements in this would-be "major statement." Socialism, repression, guilt and the excesses of exploitative capitalism are all mushed into the play, but any number of well-executed tribal rituals cannot make...
...resolution urging the University to return the $1 million donated by the Charles W. Engelhard Foundation failed because many assembly representatives wanted to focus on the demand that the library be renamed...
...years, darted about deft as a hummingbird. And Elaine Bauer proved once again that she is the company's best female dancer, less by her limber elegance than by the harmony of each detail. For a moment her wrist, flickering like a tip of flame, became the point of focus framed by everything else onstage...
...Narrow Focus...
...research projects are first sketched over lunch at the Athenaeum, an elegant faculty club with a high-beamed Spanish-style ceiling at the campus' east end. Academically, the school deliberately remains narrower than, say, M.I.T., which is noted for such nonscientific departments as linguistics and economics. At Caltech the focus is on engineering and basic research in the "hard" sciences, especially physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry and seismology. Nuts-and-bolts technology gets little attention. "We really ought to call ourselves the California Institute of Science," argues Chemistry Professor Harry Gray...