Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through another child's lament about a perfectly reasonable second marriage. The situation does not in the least seems traumatic, but Clayburgh plays the extreme neurotic, raging about how she doesn't want to go to the wedding, and ripping clothes on and off in front of a mirror. One wonders how many thirty year old women, let alone high powered intellectuals, feel such outrage at not being "daddy's girl" anymore...
...second binge looked like a mirror image of the first, but just substitute the name Richard Berkman for Smith. A hard cross pass to Ayrault in almost the exact same position made it easy, and Polar Bear goaltender Keith Brown just watched the ball fly into the net at the far post...
Last week the Post gained a new owner, and new hope for halting its long decline. The Times Mirror Co. scooped up the paper for $95 million. It thus beat out the Washington Post Co.; Oil Millionaire Marvin Davis, 55; independent Media Mogul Karl Eller, 52; and others eager for a stake in the fast-growing, energy-rich Denver market. Times Mirror had revenues of $1.6 billion last year from a variety of communications businesses (cable TV, magazines, book publishing). The firm also owns seven newspapers, including the Dallas Times Herald and Long Island's Newsday. But Times Mirror...
Publisher Seawell called the Times Mirror "the best possible purchaser," adding, "I'm delighted with their enthusiasm. So many of our problems will be solved." Foremost among those problems has been the high cost of newsprint; Times Mirror Co. has plentiful supplies. And without the financial encumbrance of the Bonfils foundations, the Post may well return to those thrilling days when its profits, and its spirits, were Rocky Mountain high...
...given to introspection, Gainsborough was a far cry from the intractability of other, more intense painters: he possessed, to a fault, the knack of not threatening the client, either by critical insight or expressive force. When he settled in Bath in 1759, he was determined to be the mirror of the upper 5% of England, the gratin who came there to take the waters, exchange scandal in the Pump Room and pursue their intrigues, sexual and fiscal, in the ambit of the great country houses of Wiltshire and Somerset. This was not a vocation for a social critic. Gainsborough completely...