The group residence on Capitol Hill, owned by Mr. Miller, has a reputation as a locus of Democratic power.
Cities were predominantly perceived as a locus of societal problems in the 1960s, 70s and 80s – places of poverty, ghettoisation, crime, drugs, social disadvantage, deindustrialisation and unemployment.
Mr. Winterbottom's "Wonderland" unfolds over a November weekend in contemporary London, which it depicts as a locus of alienation, loneliness and despair.
The date seems to operate as a locus or vanishing point for humankind's capacity for cruelty, but beyond that its precise meaning is occluded.
Correspondingly, only such professionals would have access to higher education as a locus of intellectual culture.
The Metro-North station has been restored to its 1911 Beaux-Arts self; its reputation as a locus for prostitution and drug dealing is now a memory.
Surely there is room for some of Ms Wolf's own theories about its importance as a locus of pleasure, too.
As popular music became increasingly culturally significant, graphics for the recording industry emerged as a locus of design creativity.
Barack Obama has hailed Hollywood as a locus of economic and diplomatic power which has projected America's progress through films and TV shows such as Star Wars and Modern Family.
Bach, who witnessed urban-renewal projects in his native Barcelona, was interested in the city's efforts to rehabilitate its image as a locus of drug violence and economic inequality.
Little wonder that in ballets like My Brother, My Sisters (1978), a tale of incestuous sibling rivalry, MacMillan depicts the family as a locus of intrigue and abusive secrets.
