Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern life. It shouts in the headlines, laughs nervously at cocktail parties, nags from advertisements, speaks suavely in the board room, whines from the stage, clatters from the Wall Street ticker, jokes with fake youthfulness on the golf course and whispers in privacy each day before the shaving mirror and the dressing table. Not merely the black statistics of murder, suicide, alcoholism and divorce betray anxiety (or that special form of anxiety which is guilt), but almost any innocent, everyday act: the limp or overhearty handshake, the second pack of cigarettes or the third martini, the forgotten appointment, the stammer...
...YORK MIRROR...
...customer who is undecided between two makes, salesmen often slyly deride the competition with such remarks as "Did you ever notice its cheesy dashboard?" In the final, crucial moments of the haggle, they will frequently try to win the customer by offering to throw in a side-view mirror or whitewalls without charge. Salesmen find that men make most of the car-buying decisions, but let wives pick color and interior. A salesman knows that he has a man trapped when a wife stands back, looks fondly at a car and gurgles: "Isn't that cute...
...despairing architect hero of Greene's latest and best novel attempts to isolate himself from worldwide fame by retreating to a tropical leper hospital. Yet what he finds is a mirror image of himself and of the civilization that he fled...
Adolescence presents Annie Sinigalia as a girl who kisses all the boys and afterward, wonderingly and reminiscently, practices on her mirror. Virginity finds a nice young boy and girl immobilized with modesty as they try to make love for the first time. "Tomorrow morning, maybe?" she asks shyly at the fade. "It's a shame to waste the room." Marriage (written and directed by René Clair) is a pert disquisition on honeymoon hysterics...