Word: prisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some choreographers view music as a necessary evil, and blithely pillage masterworks to accompany their dances. Balanchine, a conservatory-trained pianist who might have had a concert career, was far more respectful. Watching him rehearse once. Martha Graham observed: "It's like watching light pass through a prism. The music passes through him, and in the same natural yet marvelous way that a prism refracts light, he refracts music into dance...
...Isenberg seems to have fun with Honey's exaggerated dippiness. The scenery is basic suburban tawdry, but someone had the good sense to place a large liquor cabinet overpoweringly in the middle of the stage, so that the audience like the characters, see the action through the All-American prism of alcohol...
...said he was going "with an open mind, to listen and to learn." But when he returned to Washington five days later. Reagan remained as set and predictable in his ways as he was before his departure. The President continues to see the region through a distorting East-West prism; countries are distinguished only by their allegiance to either capitalism or communism The real problems of Latin America--the social, economic and political inequities that affect different nations in different ways--continue to be ignored...
Hatfield understands what most of his GOP colleagues do not: that the Administration is getting a warped view of reality by looking at Guatemala--and for that matter the rest of Latin America--through an East-West prism. Most of Guatemala's problems have nothing to do with the U.S.-Soviet conflict, but are simply the result of decades of social, political and economic inequities. Of course the Soviets and their Cuban allies have taken advantage of the turmoil in Latin America, but only because the U.S. has made it easy for them to do so. By stopping the chaos...
...quarters at the White House, the guests balancing plates of beef stew as they watched the network reports. "Hey, look at that!" he said excitedly when an exit poll showed that half of the voters felt the President's program needed more time to work. This view became the prism through which he interpreted the night's returns. Other than a few individual disappointments ("Gosh darn it," he muttered when Nebraska Governor Charles Thone lost), Reagan was satisfied with the results. "There was nothing to suggest a need to change the basic course," said Counsellor Edwin Meese, expressing Reagan...