Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the rough realities of American life in the 1820s, Con Melody lives completely within his genteel fantasy. He despises the local villagers. He believes himself a Byron, standing in the crowd but not of it, and he often strikes an absurd pose before the mirror to recite the poet's lines, reflecting vainly on his lost aristocratic past...
...Alphonsine la Turbulente and Mathilde la Coquette, and they were competing for the title of Miss Katanga 1964. No ordinary beauty contest, this year's assemblage of African Aphrodites was hallmarked by the narcissistic story the girls planted in a local newspaper praising their own good looks. "My mirror says I can enter the competition without fearing the outcome," wrote Marie Framçoise la Sentimentale. "My fans say I am very seductive and I agree...
...Hara is looking forward to his return to active journalism, a profession that he left in 1933, after stints on the Herald Tribune, Hearst's New York Daily Mirror and TIME, to write Appointment in Samarra, his first novel, an immediate popular and critical success. O'Hara's contract at Newsday was drawn precisely to the O'Hara taste. "They agreed to print everything I said, and not change a word," he said, "and the dough was extremely attractive. I could live comfortably on it alone." Newsday plans to syndicate the O'Hara column, which...
...Mirror Reflections. Sustained by curiosity value, the paper sold out its debut issue of 3,500,000. Its look was different, if not exactly new, although some of the headlines might have been mirror reflections of the Mirror (I'M NOT PUSHED FOR MONEY SAID THE PRINCESS BUT I'M SIMPLY TIRED OF STAGNATING). In that traditional pasture for British editorials, the center fold, the Sun spread a two-page promotion for Goldfinger, the U.S. film that will have its premiere in London sponsored by Cecil King. Readers curious about the Sun's assessment...
Usually this tension is ignored or alone in Mississippi. As he drives, his eyes constantly flit to the rear view mirror and he habitually notes the make and color of every car he sees. immersed in the work of the moment. Often it rises to the surface in a stupid argument with a fellow worker. And sometimes workers express it to each other, because they all feel it, "By accident I crossed into Tennessee today. Man, did it feel good up there...