Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important problems facing Negroes today is that of forming a self-image in a white society, he said. McKissick told the story "of the beautiful black girl with a figure like a Coka Cola bottle . . . who asks the mirror on the wall, 'mirror mirror on the wall who's the most beautiful of them all,' and the mirror answered 'Snow White and don't you forget...
...make up for higher labor and other costs but mostly covered new safety features. The two-door Ford Fairlane, for instance, was priced at $2,239.81 for 1966. To this, $23.50 is added for "product improvement," meaning dual brakes, collapsible steering shaft, safety door latches, improved suspension, breakaway rearview mirror. Safety features that were optional on the '66 Fairlane now become standard at a cost of $70.46. They include a nonglare mirror ($16.86), retractable seat belts ($14.53), uniform-pressure tires ($7.90), padded pillars ($18.22) and two-speed windshield washers and wipers ($12.95). The total addition of $93.96 brings...
...technical sides of the production mirror the best and worst features of the acting. The incidental music syncopates Bach flute sonatas with jazz instrumentation a la Swingle Singers. Mixed with Roberts' brightly patterned sets and costumes (Charles Keating plays Valentine's feigned mad scene in a giant purple paisley robe and a huge hat like the top of a party favor), the music induces a pleasurable sense of swingingly elegant decadence...
...mystery compounds itself when he finds one of the walls is a gigantic one-way mirror. On the other side of it, unseen in the adjacent room, a staff of graduate and undergraduate observers wait in anticipation, their tape recorders ready for his first words, their trained minds poised to categorize his stumbling first-thoughts...
...observers serves as a constant reminder that what is being said is heard not only by the members of one's own group, but also by professionals in the field and other members of different sections. The non-directive leader occasionally reminds the class of the observers behind the mirror when the discussion becomes too personal. Another brake on the tendency towards hostility is the rivalry among members for group leadership. Often when one leader-candidate is attacking a vulnerable member of the flock, another leader-candidate will come to the rescue of the scapegoat saying: "Now let's examine...