Word: prism
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Beneath the irony and polish, Barnes' seems to be enormously vulnerable. He reminds me of one of those boys you knew in high school, not exactly shy, but coolly appraising and refracting experiences through the prism of detachment, hampered by their cleverness. But you did not dismiss them because you realized the enormity of their potential...
...back on Russia just because the ideological conflicts of the cold war are over. The burden that Yeltsin must carry is too heavy for one man. If he should falter, the consequences will reverberate around the world. Russia, says Gennadi Burbulis, Yeltsin's chief political strategist, has become "the prism through which a universal longing for global change has been focused...
...peppered with trademarks, jargon and faux chic that the cardboard characters collapsed. Although fictional trademarks also abound in Shampoo Planet (everything from ElviSheet computer software to the KittyWhip Kat Food System), Coupland does a better job of fleshing out these characters because he views them through the prism of conflict: hippie parents of the '60s raising their global teens...
...parodies the coyness, the absurd misunderstandings and the stock situations of less accomplished playwrights. It focuses, among other things, on the importance of names and naming, doing its best to refute Shakespeare's dictum that a rose by any other name smells as sweet. As a result, Wilde presents Prism, the angular and edgy governess, Merriman, the gloomy butler and Chasuble the priest...
...argued a few years ago that no Westerner could understand Shakespeare because no one (except, of course, Mnouchkine and her disciples) could attain the requisite intellectual distance, she now insists that the only way to comprehend Greek drama, the wellspring of Western culture, is to see it through the prism of her favorite form and principal influence, the kathakali dance drama of southern India...