Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Audio-Visuel France has developed a system that promises much simpler shopping. It is called Le Miroir Magique. The shopper is first draped in black up to her neck, then perched in a chair on a platform facing a special non-silvered mirror designed for rear-projection. By pushing a button, she can then flash slides of a store's collection, each dress in her own size, onto the mirror beneath the reflection of her face, discovering in seconds whether or not the particular color, neckline and shape suits her. A decisive woman could "try on" as many...
...moment of daring. By personally assuming control of the Department of Economic Affairs, Wilson not only gave himself the toughest job in Britain but gambled his political future on victory where two senior ministers have failed. "If he is only 75% successful," commented London's Daily Mirror, "he will go down in history as a great Prime Minister. If he fails, history will regard him as one of the biggest flops who ever lived in No. 10 Downing Street...
...Headlines: A Play-Pray Book is a 50-page volume of mod meditations filled with brilliant swatches of color and eye-catching graphics. Most of Sister Corita's serigraphs use kaleidoscopic excerpts from advertising slogans blown up and tossed across the pages, often upside down, sideways or in mirror images. Accompanying them are quotations that range from Hasidic folk tales to Marshall McLuhan, all tied together with Sister Corita's own blank verse celebrating love, peace, action-and God. In this context the reader suddenly discovers that Chevrolet's slogan, "See the man who can save...
Cubes & Guitars. The show, in sum, is a mirror of modern French sculp ture. The son of a poor Parisian worker, Laurens began his career, after stud ies with a decorative sculptor, in a rundown house on a dead end Montmartre street. The year was 1911. Cub ism was in full flower, and Georges Braque lived only a few doors away...
Married. Yael Dayan, 28, novelist of Israel's young Sabra (native) generation (New Pace in the Mirror), to Israeli Army Colonel Dov Sion, 46, whom she met last month on the Sinai front; and Assaf Dayan, 22, Tel Aviv actor, to Aharona Malkind, 22, his high school sweetheart; all for the first time, in a double Jewish ceremony, with Yael and Assaf's parents, Israeli Defense Minister and Mrs. Moshe Dayan, plus 1,000 high-ranking guests, in attendance; at the Dayans' villa outside Tel Aviv...