Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London Daily Mirror: "He has shocked his friends and sadly diminished his own status in the world." - Madrid's Hoja de Lunes: "A crime...
...image of man seen in a distorting fun-house mirror, and from Paris to Tokyo, from Buenos Aires to Manhattan, the small, unconventional stages of the world are reflecting it. In these plays, the bizarre is the norm. There is a woman with three noses, a family whose every member is named Bobby Watson. Sometimes the absurdity is purely verbal: "The small of my back is too big, Doctor." More often it is physical, macabre and symbolic. Two men try to measure a corridor only to find that their measuring tapes are blank. A couple have a growing corpse...
...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter, holds a mirror up to two strange brothers and a verminous tramp and, in it, an audience can read humorous and heartbreaking truths about the human condition...
...merchant ships. For all his eccentricities, he has demonstrated a remarkable affinity for money, has swelled to $280 million the $81 million shipping fortune he inherited in 1933. Among the vast Ellerman holdings: breweries, real estate-and the largest single share in Cecil King's mammoth Daily Mirror group (15%-20%; there is no majority stockholder). "I wanted responsibility, and they simply wanted a good investment," says Thomson of the negotiations with the Illustrated group, which left Ellerman with a sizable dividend-bearing interest in the organization. "Now they have the investment and I have the responsibility...
...bluff, he doubtless does better to observe than participate. As the great Sir Robert's son, Horace Walpole had a ubiquitous entree as well as a tireless eye and the great world's attentive ear. His letters, the most diverting in all English literature, provide a lasting mirror of the 18th century aristocracy that ruled Great Britain; forged, as at times it fettered, taste; commanded a style, established an attitude...