Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city.. "Cultures have to have some things they consider unthinkable, and in ancient times, health or survival reasons entered this," he says. But it would be really nice to channel some of the things going on today that are really unspeakable--like severe deprivation--and make them the focus of our attention...
WEILL'S APPARENT PURPOSE is to focus on the friendship of the two women, but she shifts to a study of Susan. While it is Mayron's performance which makes Susan such an attractive and humorous character, not all the problems with the character of Ann stem from Skinner's weak performance. Ann hovers in stereotypically suburban settings, seeming not only distant from Susan, but from the camera as well. One finds her cold and unsympathetic, and even the original friendship seems implausible at times...
...only aspect not resolved is her relationship with Ann, which should have been the focus of the film in the first place. Ann can't make it to the opening. She had an abortion that morning--a pregnancy that grew out of insecurity and which, with a new sense of self-confidence, she decides to end alone. If this abortion really endears Susan to her friend again, there is some reason to doubt her humanity. Nonetheless, on the strengths of their individual accomplishments, Susan and Ann get drunk, giggle, and make...
Though the details of the program have yet to be spelled out, students' additional courses will focus on either biomedical research or on studies in public health, Kress said...
...LAST PORTION of Silences Olsen rescues from oblivion Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills by reprinting a larage part of it. Published in an 1861 Atlantic Monthly, this searing story was the first work of American fiction to focus on industrialization and its human cost. Davis's book work was also concerned with "ifs:" she tried to see her subject's lives as they might been not as they were. Tillie Olsen first read Life in the Iron Mills when she was fifteen after buying it "for ten cents in an Omaha junkshop." But the work published...