Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only a mirror of society, then how is it that on a television police drama, the cops will see more action in one episode than most cops see in 20 years? In a Dynasty-or Dallas-type show, the corporate head will bed more secretaries than his true-to-life counterpart could hope to in a lifetime. Does CHiPs really reflect the average highway patrolman...
...Kant, The Marriage of Maria Braun) that played high-voltage melodrama as deadpan farce; here he has turned Lale's tale into what Hanna Schygulla, who impersonates her in the film, calls "a Nazi fairy tale." As the new star gorges on her celebrity, making love to her mirror image in a palatial white bedroom, her countrymen starve to win the war and her country's enemies are paraded to death. Told that her song reaches 6 million German soldiers every night, she muses: "Six million? I don't believe it. No, not 6 million...
...proposed cuts in the arts budget mirror other Reagan recommendations, and the reaction of those affected has been typically loud, though of dubious value. Art may not seem of paramount importance to the average American, especially as he watches the Social Security system go under. And that is what makes these cuts all the more serious, those affected say. Rather than try to instill a sense of culture as a factor in education, the cuts reduce the arts once again to a secondary position. The outcome of this battle will be instructive. Our government is reducing the bread it provides...
Sometimes, rather surprisingly, it is there. In particular it seems to lurk in the Mirrors, a series of paintings Lichenstein completed between 1970 and 1972. With their silvery surfaces, reflection lines and bevels and breaks in the light, which manage to function equally as pattern and as illusion (the mirror, in art, being one of the arenas in which both can live side by side), these paintings possess a ravishing formal elegance...
They are also more plainly invented than the works derived from print sources. We do not think of mirror reflections as having a style, and in that sense Lichtenstein's mirror paintings sidle closer to unmediated experience, and so indirectly to nature, than his other work. They also gather poignancy from the fact that they are empty. One gazes at them frontally, as at a real mirror, but nothing shows up in their superficial depths. The spectator is a phantom. These icy, imperturbable tondos and ovals may say more about the nature of Lichtenstein's imagination than anything...