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...colorful optical illusions that I first encountered in the Tootsie Roll ads under "Metropolis Mailbag" in Superman comics: the same color seeming lighter or darker according to its background, a green, black and orange flag that makes you see red, white and blue when you look away. A prism breaks white light into the color spectrum, and a sodium vapor lamp turns everyone's skin yellow. There are lots of fun knobs to turn and fun buttons to push, and color TV excerpts from ZOOM. But in failing to approach the really challenging question of why color works...
Mean Streets doesn't bother too much with conventional metaphor. A film like Last Tango in Paris derived its emotional impact from compression: a wide range of the experience of Paul and Jeanne was condensed into moments of expression (sex acts, for example) which operated like a prism, and at the movie's best, whole characters' lives were refracted and born again in rawer form. Tango was weakest, in fact, when it tried to fill in the details...
Watson's statement, made in an interview in the A.M.A.'s new socio-economic magazine Prism, is no casual endorsement of infanticide. Watson believes that doctors have not fully considered the potentially disastrous consequences of their interference in natural processes...
Suffragette adheres to the history of England's women's suffrage movement, but presents it through the prism of Emmy Pankhurst's life. She appears to provide the force and momentum which rallied England's women to the cause between...
...part of the evening, stage center was occupied by a 33-ft. glass prism that drank in the light, threw it back out kaleidoscopically, and seemed to be imitating the mystery-of-the-universe monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A troupe of ballet dancers suddenly materialized to writhe to Pierre Henry's electronic sound track, which was often so loud that the management had to provide cotton balls for the ears of the audience...