Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...International Typographical Union slapped a $3 weekly assessment on all 6,000 of its working members-those employed by commercial print shops and therefore unaffected by the strike. New York Newspaper Printing Pressmen Local 2 hopefully brought suit against the New York Post, the Herald Tribune and the Mirror, asking $72,000 in lost pay and other benefits. Since these papers had not been struck but had closed down when the I.T.U. struck the other four dailies, the union claimed that the pressmen had been unlawfully deprived of their jobs. For the 900 New York Timesmen still at work...
...seems there will always be John Mason Brown, the dean of them all, who has been dispensing wit and wisdom for 36 years, is currently attacking what he calls the "spiritual fallout" in writing. "The purpose of writing," he orates, "is to hold a mirror to nature, and too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases," while the popular purveyors of the dirty word "appear to have trouble remembering whether they are writing on a page or on a wall...
...Russians don't act, they reciprocate, because the cold-war proceeds according to mirror-image responses...
...suburbanites in colored tights wheeled through supermarkets with daughters swinging similarly bestockinged legs out of shopping carts. Because stretch tights have a way of making almost any shape look more shapely, because they are as warming as the hottest toddy, and because, in the private reflection of her bedroom mirror, their wearer is the sexiest thing going, there is hardly a woman around who does not own a pair...
...heard from anywhere since the war. In The Tin Drum, he employs every technique from realism to surrealism, every tone from a whisper to a howl. The gaudiest gimmick in his literary bag of tricks, however, is a character named Oskar Matzerath. For Oskar is that wildly distorted mirror which, held up to a wildly deformed reality, gives back a recognizable likeness...