Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With today's pace, there is no time for lamenting and weeping. We must build the new structure of Russia before chaos overtakes us. Intellectuals have to build spiritual hopes for hopeless people. I believe in the new Russians. I mean people like the eye surgeon Svyatoslav Fyodorov and the other Fyodorov, who opened the first private restaurant in Moscow and the first Muscovite restaurant in New York. I mean Mstislav Rostropovich, the great cellist who, mingling with the pro-democracy crowds in Moscow, was like a new Orpheus descended in the hell of the coup. I mean...
...convert sunlight into energy through the process of photosynthesis. Physicists from California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory reported that they used such a laser to take a "snapshot" of the chemical reaction that is the first step in visual perception. This reaction, triggered when light hits the retina of the eye, had never before been directly observed. And with good reason. The reaction was clocked by the L.B.L. team at 200 femtoseconds, which are millionths of a billionth of a second. How fast is that? Well, in little more than a second, light can travel all the way from the moon...
...rated movie, so vivid is its evocation of a mind gone bad, a soul shriveled. "Gentle reader," he writes, "the ugliness of that spectacle buggers description." Which Burroughs of course describes, in language both raw and heroically ironic. The novel is a detective story in which the private eye is desperate to forget, not learn, life's mysteries; or maybe sci-fi set in the lunar wastes of an addict's mind; or else it's a spy story, in which the secret agent is bug powder...
...since that ill-fated season, and for a change it looks as if the Met has a hit. The work is The Ghosts of Versailles, by New York City-born John Corigliano, 53. The Met's artistic director, James Levine, picked Corigliano with both genuine admiration and a steady eye on the box office. Corigliano's theatrical, highly finished orchestral works, including clarinet and flute concertos and a symphony, are being played with increasing frequency around the country and are popular with audiences. His score for Ghosts may not be trailblazing music, but it is effective and, above all, singable...
...puts into play certain forces. We have had many incidents recently, with Oliver North, with Richard Secord, the whole Iran-contra business. We've seen the scale on which arms are moved around the world. We've seen secret deals. There's more going on than ever meets the eye, and there's more going on than is ever written about in the newspapers...