Word: prism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have felt equally disconcerted and amused. But now the overwhelming sensation is one of cognitive dissonance. The spectacle no longer sits well with me. I won't be complicit in what is a ritualized, institutionally sanctioned, demonization of women and, worse, pay to see bodies refracted through that prism of distortion. And besides, why look like Norma Desmond, if you don't absolutely have...
Passing around a list of every function in the budget, Kasich said, "All of these groups will be looked at under the prism of can it be eliminated, can it be privatized, can it be cut?" Hearing the magnitude of Kasich's plan for the first time, Gingrich was concerned. "The other committees are all going to jump on you," he warned Kasich. Soon-to-be majority leader Dick Armey of Texas added a stern caution of his own: "If you get out too far ahead of us, you're going to be out there alone...
...scenes carries you back to Giorgione's Tempesta.) The architecture of his backgrounds evokes a perfect antiquity, embedded in Nature but not disfigured by Time; and when he paints fragments, as in the great late landscapes with St. John on Patmos or St. Matthew writing his gospel, their forms -- prism, cylinder, cone -- transcend their ruined state by turning into a sort of ideal geometry...
...appealing individual. She comes off as an irritating, solipsistic brat. Wurtzel is interested not in depression as a phenomenon, but in her own depression, so her narrative will contain little interest even for depressed Harvard students, who would seem to be the perfect audience. Wurtzel views everything through the prism of her personal hell, so everything ends up being about her, including a lot of things that shouldn't be. For example, she imagines her lover lost somewhere in Uruguay, "a country that lends itself very well to the vagaries and paranoias of fiction because life and death is everywhere...
...viewing current events through the prism of the Nazi and fascist past can be distorting. With the exception of Italy, neofascists wield no real power in any national parliament, and the Italian case is too much of a political quirk to be considered a harbinger of Europe's future. "The situation today is not at all the same as it was in 1933," says Karsten Voigt, a spokesman for Germany's opposition Social Democrats. "The problem in 1933 was not that there were too many Nazis but that there were too few democrats. Today we have enough democrats...