Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...respect she commanded as the first woman to head a studio, Desilu Productions, Ball said she saw herself as "not an idea girl but a doer." Like the silent comedians she studied (Buster Keaton, her onetime office mate at MGM, taught her how to handle props) and impersonated (her mirror-image confrontation with Harpo Marx and her Chaplin homage were priceless), Ball rehearsed every sequence obsessively. Yet when the cameras were rolling she made each gesture look spontaneous, each wisecrack seem an ad lib. Memorably, Lucy and her sidekick Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance) took a job wrapping chocolates...
...Nooooo! It was better, in a weird way, because everything was O.K. There was sense in the world. I went deep into my subconscious and had access to two different vantage points. I still feel that there are two worlds: the mirror world and the other one. Reality is the one that I see, not the one most people see, except in their dreams. Because I'm from that world, just pretending to fit into this one, the creative space in my head is freed. There are no limits. Nothing is imposed...
...Smithsonian owns virtually all CFA observational and computational facilities, including the Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass., the George R. Agassiz Station in Fort Davis, Tex., the 176-inch equivalent Multiple Mirror (MMT) telescope at the Whipple Oberservatory in Amado, Ariz., and the VAX II Cluster mainframe computers at the CFA, which can perform two million calculations per second...
...movie, Mirror for Heroes, a modern time traveler finds himself condemned to relive endlessly one day in the Stalinist past. Such periodicals as Ogonyok and Moscow News churn out article after article attacking Stalin or rehabilitating his victims; even Leon Trotsky, Stalin's archenemy, can be portrayed with some sympathy. Excerpts from Let History Judge, a scathing work that historian Roy Medvedev published in the West in 1971, have begun appearing in the Soviet press, and the entire book is scheduled for publication late this year. The book argues that the Gulag's supposed labor camps were often really death...
Down the hall, Dr. Irina Arkhangelskaya, who has lost 92 lbs. in the past year and now weighs in at 170, hands a list of foods, with their calorie content, to Ludmilla Makarova, a new client who needs help planning a diet. Makarova, who works in a mirror factory, grimaces as she notes that the suggested daily menu forbids noodles, sausage and sweets. "And no pickles," Arkhangelskaya cautions. "They are high in salt...