Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Piqued by the sort of obituary notices his father, Novelist Evelyn Waugh, had received, young Auberon Waugh, 26, displayed some of the malicious wit that he inherited, writing a series of parody obits for London's Daily Mirror, in which he buried some of the "dead" who are still quite quick. He took special delight in his "scabrous epitaph" for Critic Malcolm Muggeridge, 63, who had done one of the obits offensive to Auberon. "In an unsavoury and fashion-obsessed period of history," wrote Evelyn's lad, himself a novelist and journalist, "he taught us all how disgusting...
...hinder her as a serious actress; Vanessa is 5 ft. 101 in., taller than many leading men. It was something she worried about too. Once, recalls Lady Redgrave, Vanessa telephoned her in the country: "She was sobbing great floods. Finally she explained. 'I'm looking in your mirror and I can't see my head...
With all this as the impetus to action, the School's Student Association agitated for, and won, faculty recognition of student "mirror committees" on Academic Policy, Lectures and Publications, and the Library, funded a student-run newsletter which has already criticized passive student roles and the training of the School's teaching fellows, and along the Harvard chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, backed an evaluation of Ed School courses. At the same time, another group of students banded together informally as the Woeful Educators, obtained two course innovations, and will soon submit reports on urban education, supervision of student teachers...
...both. Just for fun, some glasses come armed with roll-up awnings and huge fake eyelashes; others sport spectacular papier-mâché designs glued on to the frames; still others have movable lenses that lift up into a coy wink. In Riviera's new one-way mirror models, the lenses also are decorated; the wearer looks out through a patterned blur, the onlooker is greeted with his own checkered reflection...
...album of thrills remembered from boyhood, shrewdly heightening the original and sometimes shading in his own touches of nightmarish reality-most strikingly at an eerie masked ball where all the guests are feathered out as birds, again in a cell where a rotter confronts his festering conscience in a mirror that swivels to catch his every move. The spare, clever background music by Composer Maurice Jarre is a pleasurable bonus in a movie that does not just dwell on the past but feelingly rediscovers...