They click fingers as a substitute for applause, or to show understanding, and sit poised to attention as the teacher moves around the room.
Now, with "The Imitation Game" poised to increase attention further (though its account of Turing's code breaking is startlingly jumbled), Bletchley Park has opened a yearlong exhibition about the making of the film as a lure for "set-jetters" eager to visit where parts were filmed.
Like the now-retired Golden Boy, Ortiz, 22, is poised for national attention at a young age.
Rouda, a pragmatic candidate who has an expert handle on the issues, is already poised for national attention and can run circles around Rohrabacher on a debate stage.
The philosopher's intellectual labour consists in reading and listening with evenly-poised attention to how others have already responded to the situation.
Therefore, while listening (with evenly-poised attention) to lectures about proteins, mitochondria and microbes, the laboratory view of nature is what philosophers may want to grasp.
And instead of opting for a top-down, metaphysical approach, philosophers read and reread the scientific files, the avalanche of papers produced by laboratories worldwide, with evenly-poised attention, from a tilted, oblique perspective, using revelatory signifiers (complexomics, gnotobiology, etc).
The latter –omics target is studied by an unfolding research field called "complexomics", a term which I encountered for the first time during a lecture on protons in mitochondrial research, so that my evenly-poised attention gave way to a Socratic stance.
Like his art, most of Franco's misbehavior was experimental in nature, poised somewhere between attention-getting and boredom – public intoxication, pot, car-jacking, drunk-driving – and the stiffest penalty his teenage alter ego incurs is community service at a local old folks' home.
As often happens, history is reversing itself, and Sargent's murals seem poised to command our attention once again.
Now, with "The Rainbow Valley," an exhibition of the work of Everald Brown, who is called Brother, these artists may be poised to receive broader attention.
