Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honors ranging from placement on the best-dressed list to high-priced one-man shows of his work. He acquired wealthy and titled patrons wherever he displayed his work or himself. But if he appeared elegant and unconcerned to staring onlookers, he was demoralized when alone. Gazing at the mirror, he noted, "The upper lip has become longer. The mouth a thin bitter line, the eyes tragic, old and wild and of a great sadness. Were there no redeeming features...
...solution that was 2% minoxidil showed evidence of new hair growth after a year. That was the assessment of researchers who regularly counted the strands within a 1-in.-diameter circle at the peak of volunteers' heads. But what truly counts, after all, is what is in the mirror. Only 40% of the subjects felt new hair growth was moderate, and a mere 8% considered it dense. Moreover, test results show that a placebo solution (lacking minoxidil) was at times just as effective as the lotion containing the drug...
Fanger adds that she keeps abreast of the latest styles in professional dance and attempts to have the classes mirror those trends. "I try to keep current with what the interests are in the dance world at large--post-modernism has become a great cry," she says. Accordingly, the Center has begun offering classes with post-modernist teachers and has sponsored an exhibit in post-modern dance which is presently showing at Widener Library...
...battle between the Dallas Times Herald and its Big D rival, the Morning News, has been a rough, old-fashioned newspaper war, but last week one side in effect surrendered. The owner of the Times Herald, the Los Angeles-based Times Mirror Co., agreed to sell the paper for $110 million to MediaNews Group, a Woodbury, N.J., holding company with some three dozen small and medium-size papers...
Bought by the Times Mirror Co. in 1970, the Times Herald had by 1980 almost overtaken the Morning News in ads and circulation. But then the paper ran into management troubles. It dipped into the red during the first quarter of this year, while the tightly run News jumped to a formidable circulation lead (390,275 vs. 244,629). The News's owner, A.H. Belo Corp., could rightly claim victory, but perhaps the biggest winner was MediaNews President and CEO William Dean Singleton, 34. As an 18-year-old, Singleton had been turned down for a job by the Times...