Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps Spence's focus on the big picturerather than the short-term payoff, is particularlyapparent because of the footsteps in which he hasfollowed...
...result of a bad screenplay and a poor acting job on the part of Lloyd is a movie which lacks pacing, coherence and emotional depth for its first hour. But as In Country shifts its focus more toward the relationship between Samantha and Emmett, the movie gains a lot of the truth and pathos which was missing from the start...
Willis does a wonderful job of portraying Emmett Smith the reclusive, cynical and alienated veteran of the Vietnam conflict. He brings a hard-edged intensity to an underwritten character who should have commanded more of In Country's focus. Richard Hamilton and Peggy Rea also lend a much needed sense of realism to the movie with their fine portrayals of Samantha's grandparents...
Traditionally the focus of professors' frustration over late book orders, the Coop this year is crediting a new computer system for its improved record in timely text-buying...
Although Sullivan is the city's top vote-getter in almost every council election, he cultivates a low profile in most council meetings and almost never speaks. His explanation is that he prefers to focus on constituent concerns, rather than waste time on long debates...