Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street level. The find dated from about 500 B.C. Lifted reverently from the graves were many pyxides, the small, handsomely ornamented pottery jars in which women of the day kept cosmetics and other personal treasures. One pyxis dug out of modern Greece's Wall Street contained a bronze mirror and the remains of some cosmetic cream. Most interesting find: a perfectly preserved pyxis showing six of the nine official muses of Greek mythology, and also an almost unknown muse. Choro, patron of the chorus of the Greek theater...
...paint, Katayama kneels in Japanese style, with his feet tucked under, uses an ink of rock pigment, and brushes of wool or badger hair. It was the eyes of Industrialist Matsushita that most fascinated the artist, who found them at once serene and alert. "Eyes are the mirror of every human." says Katayama...
...Redeeming Note. His subject was not mankind's evils but its foibles. The French Barracks, with one officer staring lecherously at the bosom of the girl cutting his toenails while another officer preens before a mirror, is a hilarious lampoon of Gallic lust and vanity. In The Return, Portsmouth Point and The Great Hall (for which Rowlandson farmed out the background, did only the figures), the satirist turned on his native land to poke fun at the rowdiness of the toughs and the smugness of the toffs. But beyond the brawling and posturing lie England's manicured countryside...
...which a modern English princess earns her $42,000-a-year salary. Even before her return to London, British mums noted grimly that Margaret's maternity leave from public life had lasted exactly 35 weeks. Voicing Britons' qualms with a bluntness rarely addressed to royalty, the Daily Mirror declared last week: "Her petulant decisions and her personal insistences are bound to raise the question sooner or later of whether she should retire into private life...
Amid the general chorus of disapproval (including the charge that Thomson wanted to use Tony to land a peerage), a few mild voices rose: "The Mirror hopes Mr. Jones will stick to his job." If he didn't, added the Mirror slyly, Tony was more than welcome on the Mirror's staff-"at considerably less money...