Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strongly to brolly males on both sides of the Atlantic. Bound for a first-night supper party with Princess Margaret in London recently, Lord Snowdon slipped on a black wool turtleneck under his velvet dinner jacket. But what suits Lord Snowdon may not suit everybody. Gibed the London Daily Mirror: "Will these commoners never learn...
...also employs photography's "zoom lens." Enlargement shows a fleeing crowd on the left; at the right, the eye zeroes in on one figure spotlighted from the mass. Positive. Negative uses another photographic device, showing a slain black couple on a white field, their arms reaching toward their mirror image, a slain white couple on a black background...
...lady operator who suspects that the couple behind her have a relationship closer than street-hello acquaintance. The lady operator has no one. She strokes the white fur around her shoulders. There is a quick shot of the book burner's wife standing in front of a mirror with her hand on one breast. Each of them is missing some person. They long for some human connection. But they don't reach out. They caress themselves...
...Everything I do, I do to please myself," the young diarist wrote. "If I write something, it is to be able to read myself; if I dress, it is to look well in my own eyes; I smile at myself in the mirror to be amiable to myself. Ah! My pride, my pride...
...scandalous, enigmatic fictional scamp named Pito Perez suddenly loomed on the Mexican literary landscape. He was modeled after a real-life picaresque oddball named Jesús Pérez Gaona, and was immediately hailed as a personification of the national character. Bloody, absurd, splendid, his story seemed to mirror Mexico. The Futile Life of Pito Perez -his equivalent U.S. name would be something like Penny Whistle Jones-was not so much an instant bestseller as an immediate national classic. Its author, José Rubén Romero, became a figure of renown* But strangely, until now, Pito remained untranslated...