I am 98 now, and much has changed in the sport since my days: we considered ourselves fortunate to attract three or four lines of attention in the old Herald Tribune.
"We just didn't do a good job of running them off the 3-point line, of paying attention to details," Deron Williams said.
It is argued that the memory test tapped explicit memories that are not recruited in the rapid on-line control of attention but rather in higher-level operations such as planning and error recovery in interaction.
I think some nerds showed up solely to see Lynch's hair, but all the guy had to do was say something along the lines of "pay attention to the show," and everyone fell quiet as Chrysta entered, and Lynch was ushered off the stage.
When Mark Latham came out against Rosie Batty, it was merely the latest in a long line of fumbles for attention from a man aware he'd been consigned to the landfill of history.
This line got a lot of attention, and the conventional wisdom had it that James's subsequent performance — thirty-two pointen ten rebounds, five assists — had been, in part at least, spurred by Stephenson's needling.
His line garners the type of attention and praise usually reserved for the vaunted and dusty old guard.
This behavior is in line with a shift of attention to the fixation point.
Norwegian Cruise Lines won a lot of attention last fall when it announced it was buying and restoring two famous but aging American ocean liners, the United States and the Independence, ships that had ruled the oceans before the jetliner.
de Sousa (1987) and Amélie Rorty (1980) propose this sort of account, according to which emotions are not so much perceptions as they are ways of seeing species of determinate patterns of salience among objects of attention, lines of inquiry, and inferential strategies (see also Roberts 2003).
Behind my back, I'd hear, 'Is it safe to leave him in a room with undergrads?' " She left Manhattan, where she got the wrong sort of attention ("In line at the bank, I hear, 'You're the guy living on the sixth floor having a sex change' "), and moved to the Bronx, where she was only Sara.
