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...three 1981 physics winners were cited for contributions to spectroscopy, a basic tool for studying atoms and molecules that dates back to the moment when Sir Isaac Newton passed a beam of sunlight through a prism and found that it was split into a rainbow of colors, a spectrum. Newton's successors discovered that any material heated to incandescence not only produces a spectrum but one so distinctive that it could be used like a fingerprint for identifying the substance. Astronomers soon found that the spectra of distant stars yielded all manner of information, including the star...
Davis sees the playwright as a prism focusing the quirks and obsessions of society. "It's important to be very conscious of the pulse of society. I think people go to the theatre to be fed, to be nourished in some way, and I think that that's the obligation a playwright has: that they are in some way to look to themselves and to be a reflection of what's going on in society, and then write about that...
...fans got a psychedelic dose of rock antics that any Western teen-ager would recognize: flailing drummers, singers with shoulder-length hair blasting out songs through banks of amplifiers, ice-blue light beams bouncing off a multifaceted prism onto a throbbing stage. A total of eleven bands, putting on two concerts a night, thumped through such Soviet Top of the Pops hits as City Limits Blues, This Beautiful World and Mirror, plus such imports from the West as I Will Survive, and Blue Suede Shoes, both in English...
Tilt the cardboard tube and the glass shards shift; the pattern seen through the prism changes...
...blissful disinterest about next week's. Yet Goldman makes sure that the audience does not confuse Melvin's simplicity with simple-mindedness. Living in a world of milk trucks with plastic cows, game shows with applause signs and gas stations with undulating tire displays, Melvin merely serves as the prism through which we view these and other tragi-comic forces...