The work focusses on how simulated reality can shape our behavior.
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The MOMA show focusses on that apotheosis with its eponymous star attraction.
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It focusses on the traumatic effects of affairs, without acknowledging their "generative" possibilities.
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Tough's analysis focusses on the SAT, which is administered by the College Board.
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CBK's strategic plan focusses on customer growth as the basis for future revenue growth.
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It focusses on the making of his second solo album Listen Without Prejudice Vol.
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Instead, each hour-long installment focusses on a specific family within a specific species.
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It focusses on immigration, turning a privatized ICE detention center into a main setting.
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The series focusses on Remi (David herself) whose love life has recently been eighty-sixed.
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The pharmaceutical company focusses on the treatment of glaucoma and other diseases of the eye.
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"Unrelated" focusses on a group of Britons who go on an extended sojourn to Tuscany.
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She is liberal and progressive, especially in the domestic context that Lizza's article focusses on.
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In the meantime, he promotes himself as an expert in "cybersecurity response," and focusses on litigation.
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Altman assesses current initiatives and threats, then focusses on pragmatic actions to advance or impede them.
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This may be why Albinati, even as he gestures toward a generational saga, focusses tightly on adolescence.
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But Morgan focusses on three main characters, all of whom we watch grow from children to adults.
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When the listener focusses intently, wisps of sound can become expressive characters, silhouetted against an empty expanse.
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Kirsten's commute is when she really focusses on whether she has the power to destroy Lucy Headrick's life.
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Experimental psychology focusses on things that can be studied in laboratory situations and can yield clear, reproducible results.
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In the exhibition "Painters of the East End," the Kasmin gallery focusses on eleven women from that community.
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She focusses on New York's Iraq protest of February 15, 2003—purportedly the largest action in decades, organized quickly.
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La Morada focusses on education, with weekly information sessions and a small library that includes Mesopotamian myths and Boethius.
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That year, Anne-Marie sent Oliver to a public school in Long Island City which focusses on the arts.
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The pain is bearable if she focusses on the nursery window, gleaming on the opposite side of the empty road.
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In leaner times everyone focusses on living off the oxygen they have, and there isn't always enough to go around.
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Rapid-fire dialogue is slowed down by face-the-audience soliloquies, and the playlet focusses on the alchemy of relationships.
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Pankaj Mishra, in "Age of Anger" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), focusses on the failures of what is sometimes called "neoliberalism"—i.e.
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The film occurs in conjunction with a NYHS exhibition called Hotbed, which focusses on the women's suffrage movement in New York.
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The film focusses on the tug-of-war of male emotional kvetching between the two, relegating their bandmates as glorified extras.
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If Yi was consumed with the collective trauma of colonialism, Han focusses on suffering of a more intimate and personal nature.
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A lot of Kia's work focusses on memory, particularly that of her mother, the activist Kwan Bennett, who passed away in 2004.
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The film focusses on Wepner's womanizing and drug use, which led to his serving twenty-two months in prison for dealing cocaine.
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This empathetic account of the women of early Mormonism focusses on the doctrine of polygamy, first articulated by Joseph Smith in 1843.
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The annual address, which took place at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Thursday, historically focusses on the changing nature of Australian identity.
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As a lifelong Philadelphian and progressive, I am dismayed that Krasner focusses so much on the accused, and so little on the victims.
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Gramm's book focusses on eight investor's letters that sum up some of the great agency-problem battles in the history of American business.
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Traditional couples therapy focusses on the defense and enforcement of the monogamous pact, and tends to side firmly and explicitly with the faithful spouse.
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The cafés of the various European cities that Pinsker focusses on—Warsaw, Vienna, and Berlin —reflected, with startling specificity, the Jewish reality around them.
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This perception of Sandgren's circumstances helps illuminate Greenwald's political writing, which focusses on dramas of strength and weakness, and on the corruptions of empires.
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Giorgi Rtskhiladze co-owns the Silk Road Transatlantic Alliance, a subsidiary that focusses on business deals involving the U.S. He brokered the Trump relationship.
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De Leon Siantz is the daughter of Mexican immigrants; she has a Ph.D. in human development and focusses on migrant health in her research.
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My next film, "Charlie Says," focusses on the women who killed for Charles Manson and the time they spent in a prison isolation unit.
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Little focusses the mind so well as being in water so cold that, unless you are careful, your breath will literally be taken away.
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Little focusses the mind so well as being in water so cold that, unless you are careful, your breath will literally be taken away.
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Instead, he focusses on the sights themselves—geological features of the country, garbage-disposal methods in the cities, a court trial, a theatrical performance.
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"Un real " focusses on the producers who pull the contestants' strings, and Shapiro's pleasure in the abhorrent gives the series its darkly comic tone.
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"We have put together a techpack that reads acceleration across all axis and focusses on the movement of the brain inside the head," Wilson said.
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It is also a way of telling the story that focusses on the interactions of Jews with the non-Jewish cultures in which they lived.
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Fisher's lab at Nijmegen focusses on pathologies that disrupt speech, but he has started to search for DNA variants that may correlate with linguistic virtuosity.
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Taub focusses on the role that intimidation from madams or human traffickers—often in the form of juju rituals—plays in keeping women in prostitution.
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"Hillary and Clinton" focusses on the moment in the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, after the Iowa caucuses, when Hillary Clinton first fell behind Barack Obama.
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ICE focusses most of its interior enforcement resources on removable aliens who pose the greatest risk to the safety and security of the United States.
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The preview for Game of Thrones Season Six, Episode Six focusses largely on the boiling tensions between the (temporary) Lannister/Tyrell alliance and the High Sparrow.
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At several points on the album, she focusses on a burgeoning romance that's enabled her to tune out the scornful noise of the past two years.
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Evan Osnos, in his article on the ways that Donald Trump could be removed from office, focusses on options outlined in the Constitution ("Endgames," May 8th).
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During his live sets, which are infrequent, he tends to wear skinny black suits and a deep grimace; he focusses intently on his work, seldom gesticulating.
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The United States' proposed carbon-reduction policy focusses on power-plant coal combustion, but oil accounts for an even greater share of the nation's carbon emissions.
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In a more recent book, "Coming Apart," Murray focusses on the widening divide between a self-segregated white upper class and an emerging white lower class.
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Downing's novelistic and nuanced account focusses on the charismatic, Bill Clintonish master of the Zen Center, Richard Baker, who got embroiled in a Bill Clintonish sex scandal.
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This history focusses on the role Native American and African slave and indentured laborers played in building Detroit from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.
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At L'Accolade, a new French restaurant and wine bar in the West Village that focusses on natural wines from small producers, laissez-faire service meets passionate oenophilia.
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This groundbreaking study of early and medieval West Africa focusses on the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Ghana and the empires of Mali and Songhay.
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The show, which has completed two seasons, focusses on abuses of power, and is animated, and dignified, by its adherence to a public-radio sense of mission.
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Mueller, who interviewed more than two hundred whistle-blowers and profiles half a dozen, focusses on the corporate kind, especially in the health-care and finance industries.
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I wasn't always convinced that the five women she focusses on were as influential as she suggests, but I enjoyed reading about them in the workplace they shared.
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Moscow's emphasis is on its traditional relations with the Syrian military establishment, while Tehran focusses on the militia network it built with Hezbollah to shore up the regime.
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Schulson, whose research focusses on microstructures in ice, drew a big circle, signifying a raindrop, on a pad of paper he found amid the clutter on his desk.
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Luiselli, a Mexican writer who volunteered as an interpreter in New York's immigration court, focusses on the forty questions she had to ask children before their deportation hearings.
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This lively biography of the author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" focusses on what her marriage expresses about the position of women in the nineteenth century.
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This account of North Korean life focusses on the porous nature of the regime's information infrastructure, showing a country that isn't quite as closed off as we assume.
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WISENBERG: OK. STRASSEL: I said rather that it I think it would behove him to come out and make clear that this has been one of his main focusses.
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The delight of Edmund Morris's "Edison" is that, instead of arguing with earlier writers or debating the terms of genius, it focusses on the phenomenological impact of Edison's work.
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The subject of concussion is topical with the release of the film Concussion, which focusses on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brain damage suffered by players in the NFL in America.
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He wanted me to try cognitive behavioral therapy, which focusses directly on symptoms, thoughts, and behaviors, rather than on the origins and historical experience of illness in the patient's life.
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Hazelbrook Public School in the Blue Mountains near Sydney is the first school to purchase its uniforms from Change Threads, a local company that focusses on the ethical sourcing of garments.
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In " The Final Year, " a new documentary that focusses on Obama's foreign policy at the end of his Presidency, Trump's victory leaves Rhodes unable to speak for almost a full minute.
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The following day, the nonprofit would unveil its annual Hate Map of America , a main feature of the spring issue of its biannual Intelligence Report , which focusses on the radical right.
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Though the book is in many ways a group study, dotted with cameo appearances by Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and others, it focusses on Heidegger and Sartre.
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A Palestinian human-rights lawyer who has written several books about life under the Israeli occupation here focusses on his friendships with Israeli Jews, in particular with the Jung scholar Henry Abramovitch.
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The prairie figures in some of Cather's early stories, but she focusses more often on artists, actors, singers, and writers—denizens of the transatlantic world that she herself joined in short order.
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Two conceptions of life are frequently opposed: the biological, which emphasizes the physical body and the equality of all living beings, and the biographical, which focusses on individuals' social and political circumstances.
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"Neruda" focusses on a moment in the poet's life, a few years after the Second World War, when a hostile Chilean government forced him to flee over the Andes and into Argentina.
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When the Trace, a nonprofit news organization that focusses on guns in America, analyzed the C.P.D.'s data, it found that assault weapons were not among the top twenty most frequently used guns.
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As with Rowling's other work, this tale - which really is tailor made for the theatre - focusses on familiar themes of friendship and family, developing both new and old characters in a meaningful and believable way.
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Yet bel canto focusses the voice at a frequency more than three times that high—between three and four thousand hertz—so that it can vault over the sound of the orchestra to the audience.
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Their analysis focusses on the potential savings that could be made by a couple by cutting back on: coffee, gym membership, mini-breaks, takeaways, lottery spending, phone upgrades and not going out once a week.
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Dr Catherine Butler is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University who focusses on children's literature; she's also published novels for young adults and children, and acts as associate editor for the Children's Literature in Education journal.
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His lens focusses in on violence, loneliness, war and the trauma that all that brings; it's all set to vast sounds, rarely less than wholly intimate, often engaging with old-fashioned songwriting conventions, but always bold.
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The American Bridge network includes Media Matters, a watchdog operation that identifies what it sees as distortions by the right-wing press, and Correct the Record, a rapid-response unit that focusses on defending Hillary Clinton.
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Crispin's selection of subjects is refreshing: in Trieste, she focusses on Nora Barnacle, rather than on her husband, James Joyce; on the island of Jersey, she pursues the under-recognized Surrealist and sexual revolutionary Claude Cahun.
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A couple of days into my visit, Lopez arrived in town, and she took me to El Destilado, a new spot that focusses on uncertified, nano-batch mezcals—the agave distillates that may be rechristened komil .
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In celebration, the museum delves into its collection for "Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim," which focusses on artists championed by six of its patrons, from Guggenheim's art adviser Hilla Rebay to his self-professed "art addict" niece, Peggy.
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There is no shared space where her characters might be forced to encounter one another (Barker relies heavily on coincidences and chance meetings to move the plot along), and no structure that focusses their critical or artistic attention.
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In "Brigsby," after James figures out the contours of the world via a lot of Google searches, he focusses on what matters most to him: making a film about Brigsby and pulling in his friends to help—just as Mooney did.
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In an ecclesiastical setting at the Cloisters, the soprano Julia Bullock, along with the mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, and the bass-baritone Davóne Tines, presents a condensed version that focusses on the holy baby's birth.
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This history focusses on two of its members—Daniel Murray, the son of a former slave, who, in 1897, became chief of periodicals at the Library of Congress, and his wife, Anna, a descendant of one of John Brown's raiders.
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But, while much Pakistani fiction centers, like Hamid's, on the lives of the upper class, or, like Mueenuddin's, on fading feudal traditions, Hanif focusses on the sordid elements of society, and on the failures of the country's self-styled guardians.
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This article contains minor spoilers for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice by game developer Ninja Theory made a splash at the gaming BAFTAs on Thursday, winning five awards, including the Game Beyond Entertainment award, which focusses on the social impact of games.
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Traister focusses on isolated episodes of anger among progressive women of various races, classes, and eras, while failing to adequately reckon with crucial differences among the circumstances that provoked their anger and the ways in which they chose to respond to it.
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Depicting the morass of contemporary Ecuadorean politics in high modernist style, this début focusses on the efforts of two old friends—the President's chief of staff and an economist who has been living in San Francisco—to mount an insurgent political campaign.
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Cheever focusses on alcohol's more damaging effects: John Adams lost two sons and two grandsons to alcoholism, Civil War doctors often became addicted to "their principal means of anesthetic," and Prohibition did not stop the excessive drinking of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck.
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The estimated average rating of the loan portfolio fell from 'B+' to 'B' between 1435H (October 2014) and 1436H, and given the fact that the bank focusses 98% of its financing on the non-sovereign sector, there is no credit support from Preferred Creditor Status.
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"The technology that was created for Leakserv has been built from scratch and focusses solely on revenge porn content, where the solutions that were built for Onsist are more build to find any kind of pirated content and fake goods in general," he tells TechCrunch.
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The first focusses on illegal lobbying by people affiliated with the Trump campaign; the second relates to the hacking of e-mail accounts associated with Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee; and the third involves possible obstruction of justice by Trump and others after he was inaugurated.
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He focusses his account on Mesopotamia—roughly speaking, modern-day Iraq—because it is "the heartland of the first 'pristine' states in the world," the term "pristine" here meaning that these states bore no watermark from earlier settlements and were the first time any such social organizations had existed.
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They can't not be.) In "Cottage Interior" (1886), an eight-year-old Julie focusses intently on the doll that she holds as she stands oblivious of a lovely view of a harbor through a window to her right and, to her left, a large table set for breakfast.
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Tucker's history focusses on the first incumbent, Nicolas de la Reynie, who built up a network of informants and discovered more than he'd bargained for: an underground world of poisoners, witches, and chiromancers who were linked to a rash of deaths at Versailles and were plotting against the King.
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This biography of Klaus Mann, a "literary enfant terrible of the Weimar era," focusses on his relationship with his domineering father, Thomas Mann; his struggle to live openly as a homosexual; his exile after the rise of the Nazis; and his drug addiction and his fixation with suicide.
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A tale of idealism, intrigue, and failed love, it will be the marquee opera in a summer season that otherwise focusses on the musical world of Chopin, who revolutionized the intimate realm of piano music but, to the disappointment of his Polish countrymen, made no contribution to the lyric stage.
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The day before the election, the Brennan Center brought a lawsuit on behalf of Common Cause Georgia, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that focusses on election integrity, alleging that a vulnerability in the registration database left it open to hacking, and requested that Kemp's office insure that provisional ballots be properly counted.
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Poshmark, which was also founded in 2011, has sold two billion dollars' worth of merchandise so far; Vestiaire Collective, based in France, focusses on the international market; Rebag offers only handbags; StockX is the leading sneaker reseller; ThredUp, which sells used casual clothing, adds fifteen thousand items to its site every day.
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It focusses next on the hero himself, first as he recalls the fabulous adventures he had after leaving Troy and then as he struggles to return home, where he will reclaim his identity as father, husband, and king, taking terrible vengeance on the suitors who tried to woo his wife and usurp his throne.
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Musil's analytical novel is about how individual humans shape, and are shaped by, the tide of history; Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's sumptuous opera "Der Rosenkavalier," originally set during the reign of the Empress Maria Theresa, merely concerns the passage of time, and focusses more tightly on the intimate vexations of the human heart.
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" Dr. Lefevre echoes this sentiment, having carried out research into orthorexia (disordered eating which focusses on consuming excessively healthy or 'clean' foods) and the relationship with Instagram: "A lot of the health bloggers we looked at were pretending all they ate was chia seeds and green juices, but of course that's not the case for all of them.
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" Grenell focusses on the three main irritants in the countries' troubled relationship: pushing German companies to get out of Iran; agitating for Germany to increase its defense spending; and lobbying against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will bring Russian gas directly to Germany, and which Trump, at the NATO summit, claimed made Germany "totally controlled by Russia.
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Armstrong, a British science and health writer, presents, in crack Michael Lewis style, the high points of aging research along with capsule biographies of the main players, while Blackburn, one of three recipients of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology, focusses on the shortening of telomeres, those tiny aglets of DNA attached to our chromosomes, whose length is a measure of cellular health.
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Each of the novel's chapters focusses on a person affected by his short life: the high-school student who grows up to be an editor tasked with censoring the facts of the massacre; the undergraduate turned political prisoner who ultimately commits suicide; the factory girl who becomes a labor activist; Dong-ho's mother, who remains haunted, every day, by her son's death.
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Contending that media coverage typically focusses on TV preachers and a loyal born-again constituency dictating its socially conservative agenda to Republican politicians, FitzGerald shows that debate within evangelical denominations over slavery was part of the national schism that led to the Civil War, and that the counterculture movements of the nineteen-sixties echoed the populist, anti-intellectual tenor of evangelist discourse.
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"Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War" (Belknap) focusses on one of the largest slave uprisings of the eighteenth century, when a thousand enslaved men and women in Jamaica, led by a man named Tacky, rebelled, causing tens of thousands of pounds of property damage, leaving sixty whites dead, and leading to the deaths of five hundred of those who had participated or were accused of having done so.
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Cullors, a native of Los Angeles, had been organizing in the L.G.B.T.Q. community since she was a teen-ager—she came out as queer when she was sixteen and was forced to leave home—and she had earned a degree in religion and philosophy at U.C.L.A. She is now a special-projects director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, in Oakland, which focusses on social justice in inner cities.
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Consequently, any interpretation which focusses on the existence of complete control over all aspects of data processing is likely to result in serious lacunae in the protection of personal data," writes the AG. "I would add that, as the Belgian Government rightly observes, the fact that the Wirtschaftsakademie [the German company in the case] acts as joint controller in so far as it decides to have recourse to Facebook's services for its information offering in no way relieves Facebook Inc.
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