Mr. Smihula's film, opening today in New York, is a sober, focused piece that asks Americans to take another look at what is going on in their own backyard.
'Lobby Hero' Still, there is no doubt that Mr. Lonergan's "Lobby Hero" is a stronger, more focused piece.
"It's unnecessarily broad and vague and it would be far better to have a much more focused piece of legislation that really does strike at those people who are acting in a way that constitutes a terrorist act".
It is a well- researched, narrowly focused piece of scholarship with wide interdisciplinary (and disciplinary) and political ramifications. 1. Lynn Hunt, "Against Presentism," Perspectives (May 2002), at http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2002/0205/0205pre1.cfm.org/Perspectives/issues/2002/0205/0205pre1.cfm
There is no fluff here -- the band has put together a fast, smart and generally focused piece of work here.
► In a Focus piece in this week's STM, a group of authors from the University of California, San Diego; the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Georgia Institute of Technology; and the National Institutes of Health, makes the case that medical care should be improved by "accelerat[ing] the cross-fertilization of the cultures of engineering and medicine" and offer three recommendations.
A Warhol portrait of Halston was a focus piece in the designer's Manhattan townhouse.
As to the merits of the pieces themselves, we tend to select pieces that are extremely well-researched; pieces that have a tight, focused topic; pieces that are careful to provide balanced analysis with arguments and counterarguments, without conclusory claims; and pieces that are written in a clear, engaging manner that would be appropriate for the broad-based readership of a general law review.
We have no idea what could be in store for us down the road, but we need something other than just a fixed focus piece of glass to hold our attention.
Pusha, in turn, found Kanye West, whose stark and twisted production helped make My Name Is My Name feel like a more lyrically focused companion piece to his own Yeezus.
But Gordimer writes with a focussed intimacy that makes the piece a tragic love story rather than a political morality tale.
