Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MATCHED PAIRS. Torvill and Dean (Jayne and Christopher), the pluperfect English ice dancers, and the twin brothers Mahre (Phil and Steve), who won gold and silver in near mirror performances at the Winter Games...
...Virginia Woolf mused on Oct. 7, 1919. "Partly, I think, from my old sense of the race of time 'Time's winged chariot hurrying near'--Does it stay it?" "It" was diary writing, and the question was rhetorical. Of course the entries could stop time, by providing a mirror of the self and a method of recapturing the past. That is a truth every diarist apprehends, first instinctively and then with the evidence of the page. In this critical anthology, Thomas Mallon, a professor of English at Vassar, offers hundreds of such proofs, from diaries as old as Samuel Pepys...
...anatomical studies, a three-dimensional model of the heavens and a mural that actually fades before the eyes. From the base of these structures, the reader learns about the look and feel of the Renaissance and about the restless intelligence of an artist who even noted, in his famous mirror writing, the audacious discovery EVOM TON SEOD NUS EHT. A warning: pop-ups are for the very young. This year juvenile readers with a deeper interest in art should turn to a far more comprehensive volume...
...kind of cold-sweat compassion for its protagonist, a Viet Nam vet returning home. The lyrics are full of stabbing detail: this vet's wife "called up her mama to make sure the kids were out of the house/ She checked herself out in the dining room mirror/ And undid an extra button on her blouse." As in Ernest Hemingway's seminal short story Soldier's Home, the reunion is full of restless memories and long shadows. The vet lies in bed, next to his wife, staring at the ceiling, his hands paralyzed, terrified of the darkness...
Unfortunately, much of the arms-control debate seems like a scholastic exercise about how many warheads can dance on the head of a missile. This frightful air of unreality has much to do with the desire both on the left and on the right, in a curious mirror image, to escape these dilemmas and to find simple and understandable solutions. On the left, the desire to escape takes the form of a naive belief in good will or in unilateral actions. On the right, it takes the form of a search for "superiority," in the belief that we can outspend...