Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vent above your head in the ceiling begins to hum. This means the executioner has turned on the fan to suck up the smell of burning flesh. There is little time left. On your right you can see the waisthigh, one-way mirror in the wall. Behind the mirror is the executioner, standing before a gray marble control panel with gauges, switches and a foot-long lever of wood and metal at hip level...
...supported by opposition figures in Britain. Liberal Party Leader David Steel, on a visit to the U.S., said, "At some point, they [Britain and Argentina] are going to have to reach an agreement about peace in the region and how the islands are governed." The pro-Labor Daily Mirror warned, "There will be other Prime Ministers after Mrs. Thatcher. They will not all share her enthusiasms nor have the same willingness to bear the expense." The price is indeed considerable. Recapturing the islands cost the government $1.1 billion, plus $1.4 billion in damage and loss of ships and aircraft. Declared...
...pile that is Valhalla or Hunding's chilly glass-paned palace, is gained in unorthodox but expressive detail that may be overlooked in the theater. In Wotan's sorrowfully reflective second-act monologue in Die Walküre, Bass-Baritone Donald McIntyre stands before a full-length mirror; tearing off the patch that covers his lost eye, Wotan searches for his soul and finds only an emptiness that foreshadows the twilight of the gods. For all its mythic dimensions, the Ring is basically a family tragedy, just the thing for the intimacy of the small screen. Conductor Pierre...
...York's Cooper Union, in a retrospective. Chanin designed eight Broadway theaters and two monumental apartment houses on Central Park West. Perhaps his most cherished work is his personal suite of art deco offices on the top floor of the Chanin Building. The bathroom alone, done in glass, mirror and gold plate over bronze, cost $15,000 when it was built in 1929. "After all these years," says Chanin, "the offices still inspire me to come into work every morning...
...floor-to-ceiling chain-link fence. The robbers clipped through the fence, took ten to twelve bags packed with untraceable $100 and $50 bills, plus close to $100,000 in traceable food stamps, and fled to their waiting van. Left behind was a message scrawled on a dusty wall mirror: ROBBERS WAS HERE...