Which meant paying attention to the professionals, the vanguard of the coffee nuts driven by a sense that whatever they brew could probably be brewed better.
Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp and Piet Mondrian were among the many vanguard types who sat on crates and watched with rapt attention.
They're not just talking about the obvious visual similarities (300 makes extensive use of CGI environments and special effects); many have woefully put Zack Snyder's flick at the vanguard of a new cinema, aimed at a generation of attention-deficit gamers, where narrative drive is sacrificed at the altar of fetishised hyperviolence.
"Once again, it will be professional cycling that is at the vanguard because we end up in these farcical, almost comical situations that bring attention to an issue," he said.
We believe that food hubs are the vanguard of rejuvenated regional food systems; we wouldn't be devoting so much attention to them otherwise.
Though considerable attention has been focused on Chinese cyberespionage efforts, the institute is at the vanguard of a related push to bolster China's competitiveness by acquiring overseas technology directly from Chinese scientists working in the United States and other developed countries, say American officials and analysts.
The findings presented by Félix and Duveau may represent the vanguard of a new generation of C. elegans researchers: you may find teams of Caenorhabditis-ologists paying remarkably close attention to rotting fruit in an orchard near you this summer.
New data-mining software is able to predict when a pupil is likely to fail at reading or mathematics without special attention, allowing the teacher to intervene before it is too late.Yes we KhanHigher education is in the vanguard.
"You are looking at this group that's making headways, it's got the attention, it has land, it has resilient funding sources, it attracted fighters from 80 countries and is at the vanguard of global jihad, so you can't ignore it," Tom Sanderson, co-director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told VICE News.
