Word: prisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Fantasy - the Quartet is music of mind-numbing difficulty. It is practically impossible to hum or whistle, and almost impossible to play. Experiencing the drama of its dense inner layers and illusory sur faces - superbly captured by the Juilliard - is like viewing late Beethoven through an atonal prism. The power is there. So is the higher mathematics of Carter's intricate organizational scheme. As to deep feeling, and perhaps something of lovability, only time and richer acquaintance will tell...
...more likely to be accurate historical descriptions than just a core of truth embroidered through years of retelling. Jesus' teachings on the indissolubility of marriage (Mark 10: 9) would, for instance, carry more weight if it could be shown that they had not been filtered through the prism of a Hellenistic church in a Roman setting. For scholars the finding could mean the end of some cherished theories. Sighs one biblical researcher: "This means that seven tons of German scholarship may now be consigned to the flames...
...Rococo figure, complex, finely carved, all surface, like an intricately cut prism. His face was delicate but without depth, his conversation brilliant but without ultimate seriousness. Equally at home in the salon and in the Cabinet, he was the beau-ideal of [ an ] aristocracy which justified itself not by its truth but by its existence. And if he never came to terms with the new age it was not because he failed to understand its seriousness but because he disdained...