Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHAT'S THAT? CARS ZIPPING PAST TOLLBOOTHS ON the New York State Thruway without stopping? Ordinarily such apparent lawlessness would be followed by flashing red lights in the rearview mirror. Not this time. New York is the latest state to test an electronic toll-collection system that lets motorists pay up without having to stop and fumble for cash or tokens. If adopted, the automated system promises to save time for motorists, improve safety at toll plazas, cut pollution and possibly reduce tolls. Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas currently use automated toll collection. New York is jointly testing two technologies...
Against this backdrop of drift and looming defeat, Clinton, prodded by his wife Hillary, belatedly realized that the campaign structure in Little Rock had to be revamped for the general election. It had become too much a mirror of Clinton's own personality, particularly his tendency to skirt conflict, paper over differences and thus tolerate confusion. "He's got good political instincts, but the problem is that he's so facile and adroit that people come away thinking they've heard what they want to hear," says a senior campaign adviser. Hillary does not have this problem. "She's quicker...
...Raves mirror the national disenchantment with the traditional, the conventional, the status quo -- whether in politics or pop music. Their appeal lies in their quirky spontaneity and vaults of rhythmic rapture. By singing the body electric in a blizzard of refracted light and pumped-up sound, ravers embrace a collective catharsis -- and sometimes one another -- in a cuddly bear...
Although they will likely be replaced in any move, the La Jolla players are fine, especially Marcia Mitzman as Tommy's mother, Cheryl Freeman as a gypsy hooker and Michael Cerveris as Tommy -- a ghostly image singing in the mirror as a child, a world-embracing saint as a man, a victim made a poet...
Then Our Next President arrives, waving to the crowd and pointing with hand gestures carefully rehearsed before a mirror and heavily influenced by a videotape of John F. Kennedy, who, according to the polls, still has high ratings with women voters...