Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever its shape and purpose, the festival was bound to face complaints from a cultural community that is notorious for carping more than any wicked stepmother. Before the first trumpet or toe shoe had been lifted, critics were charging that the sprawling roster of events lacked focus, and had been inflated with items that were scheduled anyway or that are customary offerings of the city's arts institutions. Some ballyhooed events, they noted, were direct transfers: O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and Long Day's Journey into Night from the Yale Repertory Theater, Martha Clarke's Cocteau-like erotic fantasy...
What is clear, however, is that the anchor had a remarkable gift for talking to a TV camera. Blair recounts that Savitch once told a colleague that her trick was to focus on a spot in the middle of her head and project it through her eyes to the other side of the lens. "She would send this energy force out like a laser," he recalled. "You'd step back and say, 'Christ! What was that...
Unfortunately, when Sports Illustrated gave top billing to a woman two weeks ago, it didn't focus on a Steffi Graf or even a Debi Thomas--outstanding women of sport...
...others in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- because of contract disputes. Despite the length of the strike, the members are hanging tough: only 5% of the 3,500 affected employees have returned to their jobs, even though the company has hired replacement workers. The strikers' hopes in a seemingly hopeless cause focus on one man: Ray Rogers, the tenacious labor organizer who eight years ago helped bring a union to the J.P. Stevens textile company after 17 years of resistance, and has led fights against many other firms, has taken up the banner of the United Paperworkers...
...symphonic composition, lies not in the units but in the pauses, the pacing and the phrasing. Punctuation is the way one bats one's eyes, lowers one's voice or blushes demurely. Punctuation adjusts the tone and color and volume till the feeling comes into perfect focus: not disgust exactly, but distaste; not lust, or like, but love...