Word: prisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with its swollen body and spread wings intended both as a carrier of souls and as a fertility symbol; and a magnificent Basonge mask from Zaïre, the face and forehead incised in flowing parallel lines and then covered with white clay, the lips transformed into a jutting prism with a star-shaped hole in it-the very embodiment, one might suppose, of authoritative and ordered eloquence. Combined with the other resources of the Museum of African Art, Elisofon's legacy should be a lasting benefit to the capital...
Rubin's vision of the Viet Nam War through the prism of a grim fairy tale may not satisfy rationalists who demand an accounting of the conflict's cause and effect, a ledger of lessons to be learned for future profit. Successful art, however, satisfies another human need: the desire not to calculate but to know in the heart how things are. While The Barking Deer is not the whole story, it is a drop of moisture in a desert of data. Like those birthday dewdrops, it bears spirits that should be passed...
...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...