Word: mirrored
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Five hundred years after Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World, the fruits of Latin culture are very much on Fuentes' mind. Mexico's pre-eminent novelist is crisscrossing the U.S., Europe and Latin America to promote his new book, The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World. Published in April, the 399-page, lavishly illustrated volume is climbing best-seller lists from Washington to Los Angeles. Together with a five-hour television series that will be aired on the Discovery Channel in August, the book is Fuentes' answer to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, which ignored the Spanish...
...Buried Mirror represents an intellectual homecoming for Fuentes, who conceived of the project as "a fantastic opportunity to write my own cultural biography." Yet it also provides a looking glass of sorts for norteamericanos. "I believe in the Latinization of the United States -- we are going to resemble each other more and more," Fuentes says. "Take Detroit or Caracas, Mexico City or Atlanta -- you're going to find the same problems of pollution, crime, drug abuse, homelessness. The U.S. must see itself in that buried mirror of otherness, of tragedy, of bearing up to difficult times, of survival. Mexico...
...numbers that seem firm can be illusory, as a survey by the Times Mirror Center for The People & The Press showed last week. To explore the quirkiness of the public's mood, the center matched Operation Desert Storm hero Norman Schwarzkopf against George Bush and Bill Clinton. The retired Army general placed second, with 29%, vs. 35% for Bush and 27% for Clinton. Andrew Kohut, who ran the poll, thinks that result "underscores the difficulty of judging how much of Perot's standing is really support for Perot rather than a yearning for a nonpolitical alternative." In another experiment, Kohut...
...There's a little extra gray these days," he says, describing the guy that he sees in his shaving mirror each morning. "It's on the sides and filters through the top. But I don't notice wrinkles. The aging process is pretty gentle. I'm sure I'm different than what I looked like before. But I don't feel...
...made the mistake of digging into Jonathan Swift's political satire without realizing that my window was open. By the time I closed the book and peeked in the mirror, my face sort of resembled the Pillsbury Dough Girl's. With bad acne...