Word: focusing
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Harvard’s goal to finish the weekend with two more wins, means that it “cannot have a let down,” according to co-captain Lindsay Hallion. “We need to focus on Harvard. Our focus is always on how we play and not on what the other team...
...Virginia Woolf—but pins the greater part of blame for society’s anti-intellectualism on religious fundamentalism, media packaging, pseudoscience, and exploitative political pandering. The book’s argument is intriguing and, given this year’s presidential race, especially well-timed. The focus of the historical analysis, which constitutes the bulk of the work, is the intellectual decline of the American mind. Jacoby faults two forces: religious fundamentalism and mass marketing. She sees them as having hijacked American culture, obscuring and subsuming all distinction and nuance in simplistic generalizations. The result...
...sz’s novels, though “Detective Story,” appearing in English for the first time, may be the exception. Originally written two years after “Fatelessness,” “Detective Story” demonstrates an expansion in focus from its predecessor as it denounces the general inhumanity of totalitarian governments. Set in an unidentified, fictional South American state, under a vague but ominously present dictatorship—which itself gets overthrown by an equally blurry political force—the novella revels in its vagueness, making its story...
...major difference between the sequences being the time of day. He then strung seventy-five of these segments together to create a work that is nearly fourteen hours long. Over time, the actors gradually recede out of the viewer’s mind, while the background eventually becomes the focus, inverting the viewer’s normal perception of people and their environment.The most recent work in the exhibition is “Sections of a Happy Moment,” a sequence of 180 black-and-white photographs capturing a single moment. A Chinese family stands in a sunlit...
...West does not necessarily make a good rap video. The video begins with the St. Louis rapper nodding off in a chair, followed by a zoom-in on a table in the foreground. A stack of magazines lies on the table, the content of which seems to entirely focus on—guess who?—Chingy. Tabloid pictures of Chingy clubbing with friends and waxing his car, for example, come alive as he joins BFFs Bobby Valentino and Ludacris in stepping out of the pages. This unfortunately recalls the viewer to recall the latter’s Lilliputian...