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...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...
...British astronomer Sir William Herschel performed a curious little experiment some 170 years ago. After bending a beam of sunlight through a prism, he found that a thermometer heated up most if it was placed just beyond the red end of the spectrum. Herschel concluded that the mysterious heat source was invisible rays from the sun, but he could hardly have known that infra-red radiation-as it was called -would eventually let man see the world in an entirely new light...
Voilà! Each of Charlie's intentions is given a variety of interpretations, like a sunbeam hitting a prism. A pickpocket on the lam deposits a stolen watch in the tramp's trousers. Charlie looks at the watch-which the original victim spots as his own. A policeman gives chase-and corners Charlie in a hall of mirrors, where an infinity of cops vainly pursues an equal number of tramps. Disappearing into a tent, Chaplin seeks cover during an act. A top-hatted prestidigitator covers a girl with a cloth, walks to a large wardrobe, opens...