Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brisk 2,000 copies a week, and has already topped the total sales of his first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle-although the Chronicle won the National Book Award in 1958. Movie rights to both have been bought for $75,000, but it seems likely that any movie will mirror merely the realism. Cheever has been long acknowledged as a master of the short story, of which he has written over a hundred. Some are merely slick or O. Henryish, but some, such as The Country Husband, The Death of Justina, Goodbye, My Brother, are as perfect as a short story...
...only at the end should we suspend any predilection toward valuative judgement. Throughout the film we must experience the world in terms other than our own. In one scene (when we follow Pierre's desperate race to the convent) it bounces madly by us in the rear-view mirror of a truck. In a restaurant party, a babbling couple are grotesquely distorted through the stem of Pierre's champagne glass...
...unabashedly in favor of women." To prove it, he announced the names of a bevy of feminine appointees-one being Jacqueline Kennedy as a member of a new committee for the preservation of the White House. Among others: - Mrs. Norman Chandler, 62, wife of Los Angeles Times-Mirror Co. President Norman Chandler. Job: member, Advisory Committee to the U.S. Information Agency...
...hands, poked daintily through a curtain, as was once the case with high-ranking Moslem women. But, says the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Theodore J. Berry, there is still much to be said for a show of hands. In a new book, The Hand as a Mirror of Systemic Disease (F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia; $15), he reminds his colleagues that a variety of serious diseases can be detected by the study of a patient's hands...
London's Daily Mirror was agape. Titling him the "Duke of Savvy," the tabloid editorialized: "This man Philip is talking horse sense." The speech at the Foreign Press Association was straight from the horse's mouth anyway, since the monarchy got most of the royal husband's attention. "It has to be all things to all persons," he confessed. "Of course, it cannot do this when it comes to being all things to traditionalists and iconoclasts. But if you are very cunning you get as far away from extremists as you possibly can because they kick harder...