Word: prisms
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...homeless nationwide, the story is another example of how a small urban event - in this case, the alleged assault with a brick by intermittently homeless man Paris Drake that sent a young woman to the hospital - can become of national interest when seen through the Giuliani-Hillary prism. Homelessness becomes hot, a chance for the two candidates to flaunt their party stripes. On one side the Republican mayor vows to protect society from the "violent crazies" (as a Daily News headline called them) walking the streets, while across the aisle the Democratic First Lady scores points with...
...LIGHT Video cameras with three prisms produce noticeably better colors than those with only a single prism--but they'll cost...
...there's more to View than switchblades and red sauce. Bolcom has refracted Miller's '50s angst through the prism of an unlikely source: Benjamin Britten's great opera Peter Grimes, in which a deeply alienated antihero confronts a band of small-minded English villagers who demand his conformity or his life. Incapable of sleeping with his wife Beatrice (soprano Catherine Malfitano) and tortured by his dark longing for his niece, Eddie finds himself similarly ostracized by his fellow immigrants--a situation that allows Bolcom to deploy his chorus to galvanizing effect. View is among the first American operas...
Intrigued, the Caltech team turned a larger telescope on the object to analyze its light. They were confident that the resulting spectrum, not unlike the band of colors that appears when sunlight is passed through a prism, would tell them a lot. "Once you have a star's spectrum," says Djorgovski, "you can determine its temperature, its heavy elements and how fast it's moving with respect to Earth...
Sport at its best is a microcosm of our species' nobility. But if we revel in watching the grace, skill and determination of men and women, we also can't help noticing when this prism of our society also refracts us in all our prurience...