As I hope the title of this article and its contents have illustrated, my career has not exactly been a linear and focussed affair--far from it.
Time journalists Briton Hadden and Henry Robinson Luce said that Spears "may be the queen of pop tartiness, but her new video, 'From the Bottom of My Broken Heart', is an entirely wholesome affair," while Chris Ryan of MTV considered it "a suitably soft-focus affair".
British foreign policy in recent times has been heavily focused on affairs in the Middle East, so the views of a potential party leader on the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians, for instance, are important.
Interestingly, Alekseev's U.S. tour comes at at time when most civil rights advocates are heavily focused on affairs in the Middle East, a point which has not gone unnoticed by his detractors.
As a result of the new attention focused on the affair, Dreyfus underwent a new court-martial.
"Mr. Selfridge" is a more commercial and proletarian affair, focused on innovations in window dressing and the love lives of shop girls, music hall stars and grubby capitalists.
Of late, the war in Afghanistan has been a split-screen affair, focused on Kunduz in the north and Kandahar in the south.
The most notorious item in the case against Propst, a married father of three, focused on an affair from which he had another child.
Black, meanwhile, has been given the green light for his long-gestating Doc Savage project, which will be a big-budget affair focused on the 1930s pulp hero.
The meeting was meant to be a light affair, focused on networking and alternative energy issues, but the first speaker had something heavier on his mind.
While local elections are usually a subdued affair focused on issues such as cycle paths and rubbish collection, yesterday's poll was dominated by immigration and Afghanistan.
