Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insists at one point; elsewhere, he disguises his own bite with barely detectable assonances like "hankering" and "merry thing." He toys with words to tickle emotions. In "Dawn Song," a man gets up after a night of lovemaking and praise from his partner, and faces himself in the bathroom mirror...
Shoot the Moon is an adequate mirror of our times--but not much more. It tells us little about ourselves that we have not been told before. At least it offers no easy answers. But its topicality limits it, and its very timeliness will soon date it. It is among the best of a boring genre...
...glance in the mirror, an adjustment, then a look around. He: meets her look, then his limit. Enough. The proceedings must conclude. He searches for something cool and dismissive, settles on an old favorite. "Come on," he says, perhaps even loud enough for the sales staff to hear. "That thing makes you look pregnant...
...litany of the most pitiful cases the faith-heater has cured. One witness it seems, was constantly passed over for membership in an Exclusive Social Club. After just weeks of training under Molloy's program, which seemed to center chiefly on looking, "haughty and distant," in front of a mirror several hours a day, the young man achieves what Molloy calls "his new upper-socioeconomic face" and yes, membership in the in the afore-mentioned Exclusive Social Club...
...FIRST STEP to joining this social elite, apparently, is to emulate the fellow who made it into the Exclusive Social Club and adopt the so-called "Molloy's Class Mask." The key to becoming so facially favored apparently, is to spend hours before a mirror aping the book's clearly-labeled diagrams, which show an upper-class executive type holding his head up, and an average slouch, well, slouching. This modern Pygmalion proceeds to offer up a self-graded speech test that seems to miss some of the subtleties of poor speech--one is downgraded for pronouncing "boil" "berle...