"The Book of Salt," Truong's first novel, also used an artful narrator: Binh, the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, who provided his own angle of vision on the Paris demimonde of the 1930s.
Stereoscopic pictures are produced in pairs, the members of a pair showing the same scene or object from slightly different angles that correspond to the angles of vision of the two eyes of a person looking at the object itself.
Which raises a provocative question: what is the proper angle of vision for reformers -- the long historical view, or a look down today's mean streets?
Washington needs to broaden its angle of vision to encompass the Iranian people's struggle for freedom and democracy.
What the outsider apprehends and misapprehends can be great stuff, depending on lighting, angle of vision, field of view, misapprehended idiom, distortions caused by hyper-alertness.
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The paper was given by Raphael Samuel and the sight of Eric and Raphael side by side, and my angle of vision from the corner of a room, led me to wonder why both these Marxist historians had adopted versions of the Bobby Charlton comb-over.
