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This issue looks at how authenticity has been refracted in culture past and present.
FORBES: Editor's Note
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The arc of refracted light was relevant for two men and two parties.
FORBES: Britain's Twofer: Vote For One Party, Get Two
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All the refracted light and reflection gives a feeling of infinite space, like being on the bow of a ship.
WSJ: Sailing the Wide Miami Sky
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Since light is refracted more strongly through this fluid than through a vacuum, flooding a compartment changes the magnification of the lens.
ECONOMIST: Cataracts
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The cultural politics of race in America are always refracted through class.
NEWYORKER: State of the Union
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At the time, Rashomon, the tale of a violent act refracted through the conflicting testimony of four witnesses, was a significant act of diplomacy.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia
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The Bright Young People live on, if only as social shorthand, because so much of their partying and preening was refracted in the press, who fed off the novelty and exoticism as vampires might a warm vein.
FORBES: Medialand
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Flip with his breakfast cereal smile, in his zip-up land speed suit, made of a silvery-blue ripstop cloth that refracted to lavender at angles and folds, and lace-up racing boots that were the color of vanilla ice cream.
NEWYORKER: Youth in Revolt
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Meanwhile, the curved ceiling of the main house captures the interplay of light refracted from the L-shaped pool, and the roof's louvered panels float above a wall of windows, perching on delicate wood columns as they shelter an outdoor patio.
WSJ: The House That Gucci Built
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Jacques Rivette made his first feature with little funding and great difficulty between 1958 and 1960 and refracted his struggles into its plot, which combines the paranoid tension of the American film noir and the austere lyricism of the modern theatre.
NEWYORKER: Paris Belongs to Us
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Then he discovered a new Japanese method of cutting diamonds: When viewed under a low-magnification (3x) lens, the stone refracted light in such a way as to give off a pattern of eight heart-shaped sparkles at the bottom of the diamond and eight arrow-shaped fire-bursts through the top--hence the name "hearts-and-arrows" diamonds.
FORBES: Stones on fire