Ms. Banfield, a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is the most visible of the younger crop of television journal ists who came of age honing a lighter style for audiences skeptical of authority and often, news executives believed, showing more interest in entertainment news than the peace talks in the Mideast.
But Darwin saw the peculiarities of orchids in a completely new light, as devices, honed and molded by natural selection for the purpose of promoting sexual reproduction.
As for the young hopefuls, Deganit Shemy sets up a game with strict rules confined to a small square of light, Anna Sperber hones in on sensory details, and Heather Olson tries to find hints of emotion underneath abstraction.
The musicians were lit up with their true colors, honing in on the exact moment they created their art.
But this summer he's setting aside O'Neillian angst, and honing his skills in comparatively lighter roles.
Stories abound of cars ringing makeshift courts at night, lights on, boundaries marked with flour, players honing their ball-handling skills by wearing gloves or dribbling over rocks.
While at Bath he also attended many lectures and workshops at the BBC's Natural History Unit in Bristol and Wild Screen, while honing other practical skills through lighting work at the Theatre Royal in Bath.
Mr. Holland, one of the best bassists playing jazz, keeps honing his vision of small-group music, with tight, light, clipped arrangements; his new CD, "Prime Directive" (ECM), includes the tenor saxophonist Chris Potter, the vibraphonist Steve Nelson and the trombonist Robin Eubanks.
But he also wanted to use the tricks he had learned about perspective, light and depth perception, honed through years of creating spatial illusion on stages and film sets here in Colorado, where he now lives, and in Los Angeles.
At least they recognize the "Islam Light" the Brotherhood has honed to perfection after a pretty radical and conservative beginning with an ideologue like Hasan al-Banna.
