Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arizona and Mount Palomar in California, they photographed patches of the night sky and got two-dimensional pictures showing the distribution of matter in a sector of space. To add the perspective of depth they used an astronomical yardstick called the red shift, a measure of how far an object has traveled based on how sharply its light is displaced toward the red end of the spectrum...
...share these worries. But we do not endorse the solution recommended by the AAA, BSA and GSA. Our reasoning follows that of many civil rights activists, whose motto for much of the last century was drawn from the language of a Supreme Court case: "one-man, one-vote." We object to tampering with electoral democracy in order to aid one group or interest; we object to such tampering be it by whites in the Southern United States or New York City, or by minorities in something so insignificant as student government. When district lines were redrawn in the Mississippi Delta...
...opera's plot is a domestic tragedy with universal implications. Katerina is the sexually frustrated wife of a rich provincial merchant, Zinovy, and the object of the thinly disguised passion of Boris, her lecherous father-in-law. Into her life comes Sergei, a handsome young worker. The pair become lovers, but Boris catches them in feverish embrace and publicly whips Sergei. Katerina coldly poisons Boris in revenge, and then she and Sergei compound the crime by strangling Zinovy. When the village drunk later stumbles across Zinovy's body, he alerts the police at the moment when Katerina...
...Lulu two years ago ensured that the truncated version-which was the way the opera was presented until 1979-would not be heard again. So now will Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk become the standard version of Shostakovich's masterpiece, and Katerina will fade into obscurity, an object for musicological study, not for performance. There is no longer any need to settle for the substitute when one can have the original. -By Michael Walsh
...flame is too bright to ignore. Streep's not-quite-pretty face, which should have been just the object of Smithson's passion, becomes instead the most memorable thing in the film. Streep, almost by accident, takes over the stage whenever she enters. Irons is good--his aristocratic gentility and his moments of anger both stand out clearly--but he can't compare to Streep's magic. Streep, as the Scarlet Woman of Lyme Regis, has to convey an obscure, flighty vulnerability, always looking away from the camera and Smithson. And always she has at her disposal that piercing stare...