Today, Facets is a giant in the rarefied world of art-house films and cultural education.
Light that may strike a large patch of facets is concentrated on one ommatidium.
A ventifact that has been eroded to three curved facets is called a dreikanter.
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's "Our Hitler" (a two-disk set from Facets) is anything but a bio-pic.
Another tool used to grind facets is the dental engine, which has greater flexibility and sensitiveness than the lathe.
A variation, in which an internal mirror drum with many facets is used instead of a glass prism, is usable up to about 40,000 frames per second.
Elevated on a tripod base, a big ball made of hexagonal, beige-colored plastic facets is illuminated from within by lights powered by solar panel wings.
Walt Whitman, the self-declared disciple of Emerson, embodies another aspect of the transcendental tradition: its sense that "freedom", in all its many facets, is the essence of all American ideology, including poetic ideology.
On its own, Facets is best at digging deep into foreign film and corners of independent filmmaking that, without big names and studio connections, can still be called independent.
The gold cage, with gemlike triangular facets, is the metallic equivalent of buckyballs, molecules consisting of 60 carbon atoms in the shape of soccer balls that were discovered in 1995.
But not to examine Benton's work more closely and through different facets is to ignore a vital part of the growth and evolution of American painting throughout the 20th century.
