Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense, the Soviet campaign is a mirror image of the Reagan Administration's p.r. blitz. It sought to pin the blame squarely on the U.S. for blocking a deal that Gorbachev said could have constituted a "turning point in world history." In his TV speech the Soviet leader at times took a condescending, almost derisive tone toward Reagan, portraying the President as a confused leader "demonstrating his complete ignorance and misunderstanding of . . . the socialist world." But Gorbachev was as insistent as any Reaganaut in denying that the summit had failed. Said Gorbachev: "The work that went on during the meeting...
...roan colt gets scared because I'm scared, and he tries to run off. Les' chestnut mare slips and falls on her because Les has been too demanding. Chuck's mule and Elaine's colt pull away because they've been too imprecise, too lenient. "The horse is a mirror. When I see your horse, I see you too," Ray reminds...
...faults. At one point he reminds himself: "Don't talk all the time. It is an error to suppose that other people can have nothing interesting to say." At another, while dining in a Parisian cafe with his fourth wife, Elena, he sees himself in a wall mirror and "was horrified at the contrast between my big-bellied person and my red and swollen face, with a not too pleasant expression about the eyes and the mouth, and Elena's exquisite slimness and delicacy...
...SIMPLY, it is this: Harvard is--no more, no less--a product, if not a mirror, of the culture it lives and breathes...
...night life often associated with his industry. "I don't live in that world of 'Daaahling!' I can't stand it," Lauren says. Instead he tends his ranch, drives a collection of antique race cars, and jogs three or four miles each morning. Lauren's cultural interests tend to mirror his professional instincts. Last year he spent a reported $350,000 to sponsor an acclaimed historical exposition of riding tack and apparel, called "Man and the Horse," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Though he professes to be nonpolitical, Lauren openly supported Democratic Hopeful Gary Hart during the 1984 presidential...