Word: prisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lamb is acutely aware that as a foreign journalist he cannot help viewing African events through the prism of his own American upbringing. At a seminar on Africa and the foreign press last week, Lamb questioned whether it is, in fact, possible for Western journalists to provide fair and balanced coverage of Africa. He himself acknowledges, having "little tolerance for much of the rhetoric of the Third World...
There are actually two other characters, but each is encased in the prism of Woolf's consciousness. Her husband Leonard (Nicholas Pennell) devotedly tended a brushfire of genius at which he was painfully singed. Also vying for Virginia's affections is Vita Sackville-West (Patricia Conolly), an avowed lesbian, or Sapphist in the term of Woolfs 1920s...
...would have thought that this prism of bliss is a mere pause amid tumult, a respite in a plot-clogged saga of murder and revenge, which features, among a good many other things, poison asps, opium, the collapse into rubble of an entire Indian temple? With Natalia Makarova's direction, the American Ballet Theater has produced the full-length La Bayadére, at a cost of about $500,000. American balletgoers are not used to such a florid, densely populated drama. To appreciate it, one must be prepared for a very full, surprising experience. The evening...
...film. In the asteroid scene, for example, one would show the zooming Falcon, another the model asteroids, a third would show the stars shining in the background, and a fourth such things as shadows, laser beams arid explosions. All four machines would then project their images through a prism, which would combine them into one seamless film. Models were carefully synchronized by computers, moreover, and scenes using effects of enormous complexity could be duplicated as many times as necessary...
...Sausalito they slept on a creaky fishing boat, waking at dawn. Is that why they call it golden? wondered Rick, staring off through a misty prism at the bridge. Two eggs and bacon, said Sammy to the waitress. They drove away from the high-way, on a wispy road through craggy moors. The road ascended, then dropped to beach level. Sammy felt sick. Is this it? he wondered, staring out the car window into the fog. Rick stopped the Dodge and they shuffled across the sand. All these beaches, muttered Rick. Sammy watched the ocean caress his feet, walking until...