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Word: prisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outlet. The tan can be shown off at dinner, served on an 800-Ib. table ($29,920, from Colbert's in Amarillo, Texas). Handmade of Lalique crystal, its base is in the shape of a giant flowering cactus. At its core is a central prism which, according to the blurb, "radiates brilliance upwards to the specially made 60-in. glass top." Add 5% sales tax for Texas residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Ordering the Ultimate | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...home in Susquehanna, Pa., four days before he was to have married for the third time. A philosophical fabulist, Gardner wrote a dozen novels (among them, Grendel, 1971; The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972; October Light, 1976) in which he examined age-old questions like freedom vs. license through the prism of a gothic imagination that he said was set working by "the world of Walt Disney. I see those Disney images everywhere-in Dante, in Homer, above all in Chaucer." In On Moral Fiction (1978) he argued fiercely for positive, inspiring writing and charged that, by contrast, "almost all modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 27, 1982 | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...three 1981 physics winners were cited for contributions to spectroscopy, a basic tool for studying atoms and molecules that dates back to the moment when Sir Isaac Newton passed a beam of sunlight through a prism and found that it was split into a rainbow of colors, a spectrum. Newton's successors discovered that any material heated to incandescence not only produces a spectrum but one so distinctive that it could be used like a fingerprint for identifying the substance. Astronomers soon found that the spectra of distant stars yielded all manner of information, including the star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watching the Dance of the Atoms | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

Davis sees the playwright as a prism focusing the quirks and obsessions of society. "It's important to be very conscious of the pulse of society. I think people go to the theatre to be fed, to be nourished in some way, and I think that that's the obligation a playwright has: that they are in some way to look to themselves and to be a reflection of what's going on in society, and then write about that...

Author: By Aldrich N. Potter, | Title: A World of Ordered Chaos: Behind the Lines With Bill Davis | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...fans got a psychedelic dose of rock antics that any Western teen-ager would recognize: flailing drummers, singers with shoulder-length hair blasting out songs through banks of amplifiers, ice-blue light beams bouncing off a multifaceted prism onto a throbbing stage. A total of eleven bands, putting on two concerts a night, thumped through such Soviet Top of the Pops hits as City Limits Blues, This Beautiful World and Mirror, plus such imports from the West as I Will Survive, and Blue Suede Shoes, both in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Tired? Nyet! | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

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