Even as attention fell on the Tate's glamorous new buildings the work was always what mattered.
In advance of the spending review, Osborne has focused on extra cash for protected departments, but knows he will be unable to escape the attention falling on cuts.
"It's healthy for our public life to have moments and occasions when the focus of national attention falls on national leadership".
When Major Littleton Waller, of the Marines, appeared before a court-martial in Manila that month, unprecedented public attention fell on the brutal extremities of U.S. combat, specifically on the island of Samar in late 1901.
Home runs tend to stop a game--the men on base, the defensive deployments, the pitcher's struggles, the count, the score--has been snipped, and all our attention falls on the hero.
The pairings for the first day of the Presidents Cup were released today, with everyone's attention falling on the final pairing that puts Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker against Adam Scott and K.J. Choi.
Henri Guaino, an adviser who dreamt up the idea but was demonised in Brussels and Berlin for inept salesmanship, purred quietly in the corner.As convoys of dark cars shuttled along roads closed to other traffic, most attention fell on the diplomacy.
IN New York's classical-music world most of the attention falls on the big boys: the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the major international orchestras that pass through Carnegie Hall, the glamorous soloists who can earn tens of thousands of dollars an appearance.
Most attention fell on Musanilgi (The Journals of Musan), Park Jung-Bum's brilliantly observed if overlong drama about a North Korean refugee struggling to survive in the South.
The judicial panel's imposition of the new Congressional lines capped a day of jockeying among prospective candidates, with the bulk of the attention falling on a Queens district, much of which is currently represented by Gary L. Ackerman, a Democrat, who unexpectedly announced his retirement last week.
