It is from Washington, D.C., where everything is viewed through the prism of either what is happening on the Senate floor or at the White House.
Moreover, in a city where politics is often viewed through the prism of race, the endorsement of Mr. Seabrook has been Mr. Ramirez's most controversial move yet.
For its installation in the academy's Hillman Attic Studio (30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene), where it can be viewed through Dec. 16, the creators have erected a grid of 110 tiny screens that are normally used in cash registers.
This effect is especially powerful in foreign affairs, where each new conflict is viewed through the prism of Vietnam or Munich or the cold war or Iraq.
There will be an opening reception, lectures, a micro-minerals room (where tiny crystals can be viewed through microscopes) and an educational "mineral maze" for children.
One possibility relates to the so-called 'aperture problem', where the motion of a line viewed through a narrow window is ambiguous for motion parallel to the line itself, and only movement perpendicular to the line is detectable.
The relation of defaults to relevance is viewed through the notion of context, where the agent has to find plausible context information by using default rules.
Increasingly, however, business success is viewed through the process of managing development, where management decisions are informed by appropriate and timely information.
Human brain dynamics can be viewed through the lens of statistical mechanics, where neurophysiological activity evolves around and between local attractors representing mental states.
Through the top-story windows of another wing -- where the roof had been destroyed -- clear sky could be viewed through billows of smoke.
