Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing furor over the circumstances of Biko's death will inevitably focus attention in the coming campaign on the government's racial policies. Even more crucial, perhaps, it may prove to be a final showdown in the 200-year-old cultural and political war between South Africans of English descent and the Dutch-descended Afrikaners. The Afrikaners' ability and willingness to adapt, if only to survive, are yet to be tested. But knowledgeable observers believe that a convincing electoral victory would allow Vorster to relax the apartheid laws and work toward peaceful settlements in Namibia and Rhodesia...
...shocked and stirred with bitter anti-capitalist and anti-bourgeois visual polemics. But just as Godard was then trying to translate radical ideology onto the screen, with Numero Deux he seems to have set out to create a visual reflection of his recent frustration. The result thus deliberately lack focus. Yet in its confusion this movie is more human, more personal and more troubling, than Godard's earlier ruthless assaults...
State Sen. Julian Bond (D-Ga.) last night spoke at the Law School Forum, reviewing the historical situation of black Americans and urging black leaders to broaden their focus and aim for racial, social and economic equality...
...other object to be photographed, is set up exactly 3.9 meters (13 ft.) away from the focal point of the lens, that distance being double the focal length of the lens. Then the tapestry is illuminated with banks of lights (see diagram) while, inside the camera, technicians fine-focus the image on a screen 3.9 meters behind the focal point of the lens. Next, they lower a huge sheet of standard Polaroid negative stock, hold it flat against the screen with a vacuum pump and trip the shutter, thus exposing the negative...
...products of Land's new camera will be revealed to the public at a Museum of Fine Arts exhibit entitled "The Martyrdom of St. Paul: A Medieval Tapestry in Sharp Focus." In addition to the actual Martyrdom, the exhibit will include a life-sized, full-color reproduction of the tapestry's reverse side. It will also display ten 51-centimeter by 61-centimeter (20-in. by 24-in.) reproductions and magnifications of selected segments of the tapestry showing such details as the original stitching and repairs that have been made over the years. The museum will soon...