Word: focus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photographer plucks a gas mask from under the chair of one of the city reporters who has a seat nearest the empty chairs. The photographer hands if to the reporter and suddenly everyone in the room has something to focus on-something is happening. The reporter passes it off to a black reporter next...
...building is intended to provide a center and focus for the observatory," said Leo Goldberg '34, Higgins Professor of Astronomy and director of the Harvard College Observatory. Nearly all the administrative offices will be moved into the new facility along with some Faculty and graduate student offices...
Members of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association voted last week to shift the focus of their work to cases designed to benefit large numbers of poor people rather than individual clients alone...
UNIVERSITY policy toward its urban environment emerged as the sleeper of the April events. Individuals had obviously been concerned and Professor Wilson had completed his report but the issue was not a focus of popular attention. April did draw out of the administration a commitment to build low cost housing in Boston and Cambridge. However, this commitment might well have been secured without disrupting the University. The anti-ROTC campaign launched by the left during the fall had culminated in February in the faculty decision which in effect abolished ROTC. A similar campaign might have worked in the case...
...nearly motionless objects- the Empire State Building, a man sleeping. Despite their notoriety for selecting events and objects at random, and thus trying to destroy designed art, these films pushed cinema to its fundamentals and were Warhol's purest formal works. A subsequent series of sharply lit deep-focus features sustained interest through one's shifting attention within the static frame. One continually rediscovered the composition's different elements as the people in the shot moved and talked. Finally, Warhol began to zoom and pan, giving people an appearance entirely different from the hard-edged definition of the preceding films...