refracted

Susan Seidelman’s new memoir, ‘Desperately Seeking Something,’ traces the arc of American film over the last 45 years as refracted through her singular career.

The refracted reality that emerges through its prism, no matter how vivid or persuasive, is no venue in which to live again.

Sunlight is refracted over the horizon even when the sun has set, and so at many latitudes, most days may in fact be dominated by different phases of “polar twilight.”

There, in the front window, glistens a massive Maria Theresa-style chandelier that once shimmered in the hotel’s ballroom, its many crystals winking at you in the refracted light.

Operatic because what they wind up recording, however refracted through a commercial pop lens, inevitably expresses their heartache, betrayal and fury.