Word: holographs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chronological order, can "borrow from the methods of the novelist without, however, being fiction." Here again Greene aims for that but fails. He avoids a two-dimensional portrait, yet in his attempts to give this third dimension to Rochester's life he misses. His book is like a holograph that has jumbled up the diffraction pattern from which a three dimensional image of Rochester might have been projected. All that's left are a few juicy slices of life plus a lot of silly pictures...
...recent years, Dali has tried to give his work a quasiscientific dimension by toying with such themes as Einstein's theory of relativity and the discovery of the DNA spiral. The latest Nobel laureate to experience his attentions is Dr. Dennis Gabor, the inventor of holography. A holograph, made with laser beams, has the property of accurately reproducing an object in three dimensions. "All artists," proclaims Dali, "have been concerned with three-dimensional reality since the time of Velásquez, and in modern times the analytic Cubism of Picasso tried again to capture the three dimensions...