Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said the Consumer. But he pointed to a wall mirror, and added, "They asked me if they could videotape this, though, and I said, 'Sure...
...latest warnings about salt, sugar, too much protein and assorted baneful additives, one current bestseller, Jane Brody's Nutrition Book, sensibly advocates a return to a down-home simplicity: meat, fish and milk in moderation, plenty of green and yellow vegetables, grain and some kind of fruit. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, what's the most carcinogen-free of all?" Thousands of people have even abandoned markets, selecting organically grown guavas and "pure" rice in the nation's 8,000 health-food outlets...
...dragnet zeroed in on four work camps where transient workers often stayed, Majeski predicted that Louisiana police would find Abbott combing his hair in front of a mirror and that he would give up without a fight. The savvy New York cop was uncannily right on both counts...
That someone, it turns out, is Kim himself, and in Inversions, he has created an entire book of words written in a fashion that visualizes their meanings--"calligraphic cartwheels," he calls them. "MIRROR" has left-to-right symmetry; so does "DYSLEXIA."" upside down" reads the same when rotated 180 degrees. The letters of "EGG" fit together to form an oval. "SYMMETRY" has rotational symmetry. (On the same page, neatly enough, "ASYMMETRY" has none...
...does a mirror reverse right and left, instead of up and down? If you extend your right hand while standing in front of a mirror, your reflection will extend it left hand--right becomes left. So why doesn't you head become your feet? Take a minute to puzzle this one out. Even if you understand the answer, you will probably have difficulty explaining it to anyone else...