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...Brattle wasn't designed as a movie theatre (or indeed as a theatre at all), and the projectors have to be behind the screen instead of over the balcony as in any other theatre. Being behind, the screen image is reversed, and to return the image to normal a prism previously had to be mounted in the projector lens. This prism cut down the light by about 40 per cent, forced the screen to be pushed to the back wall, and made a "hot spot" of bright light in the center of the screen...
...Harvey will tell you, things have changed. The staff have put their heads together and devised a pair of angled mirrors at which the projectors aim. The mirrors turn the image rightside right and the obscuring prism has been plucked out. Not only is the screen now sharp and bright, even at the corners, but the Brattle can employ Cinemascope or nearly any other big screen system. All the better to see good movies...
...Still Life Gris painted in 1915 (see opposite), he showed a clutter of everyday things -a book, a bottle of Medoc, a newspaper, a table and a view out the window-as they might appear if refracted by a prism. The result is a much more orderly design than the eye could have seen in his drab, poorly furnished room on the Rue Ravignan, but it testifies to the vision that kept Gris painting there. In 1927, when he was only 40, Gris died of uremia. Long afterward, Picasso, studying one of Gris's paintings, said...
...wife proved to be an almost pathological stinge. Milt was a low-born lunk who still crossed his knife and fork on the plate when he finished his dinner, but his wife was the sort of girl who lusted after little French restaurants, where the soup tastes "like a prism," and she was always happy to tell him what Whistler had said to Oscar Wilde. She teased his tastes ("Does it want wose-colored silk shades on the . . . wamps?"), and she caught him up briskly when he lapsed into vulgar speech...
...crystal chandeliers in the U.S. Capitol had been taken down, disassembled, washed prism by prism, reassembled and rehung. Twenty-two painters had brushed their way across Capitol Hill, cleaning and painting walls. By this week all was in readiness for the fall of the gavel opening the second session of the 84th Congress...