Word: prism
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...Lord of the Rings, Cloud shows that he projects homosexual lust onto any friendship between members of the same sex. It's a pity he apparently has no concept of intimate friendship without a sexual aspect. Like too many people these days, he sees the world through a prism that puts the focus on sexuality. Joe Smongeskishrewsbury, Massachusetts...
...Lord of the Rings, Cloud shows that he projects homosexual lust onto any friendship between members of the same sex. It's a pity he apparently has no concept of intimate friendship without a sexual aspect. Like too many people these days, he sees the world through a prism that puts the focus on sexuality...
...David Brinkley were the only three people who were doing the evening news at the time. There were no all-news cable on CNN, MSNBC or FOX. Most of these journalistic enterprises were organized by and run by white middle-aged men from the Eastern seaboard. That was the prism through which the rest of the country saw the world. That's changed considerably now. The evening news anchors are competing with the internet. They're competing with the all-news cable channels all day long. They're also competing for the attention of a younger audience that doesn...
...expected vilification of fiends like Saddam and Chemical Ali. In a parenthetical note to "A Prisoner's Song," Antoon explains that the poem's title refers to POWs on both sides of the Iran-Iraq war. But besides this and one sardonic, flippant reference to U.N. resolutions in "A Prism; Wet With Wars" - the collection's puffed-up opener, which is swollen with images of "imminent wreckage" - there is no overt reference to politics and no bitter outcry against George W. Bush or Bush's father (five of the poems were written from 1989 to 1991). There is no assault...
PERSEPOLIS In their '90s heyday, Iranian films often refracted social drama through the prism of a young girl's viewpoint. Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical cartoon is the tale of her life in Tehran under two despots, the Shah and the Ayatollah. Harrowing yet buoyant, Persepolis earned the Jury Prize at Cannes and the official scorn of the Iranian clerics...