Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...open a book, and an ant will be crawling on the page. You'll reach for your coffee mug, and an ant will be exploring the inside. Ants run across your hand as you type. They inch down the mirror as you brush your teeth. They're tiny specks moving across the TV, and little tickles on your ear as you talk on the phone...
Adams's "Self-Portrait in Victorian Mirror" (1933) is downright bizarre. Adams depicts a deliberately contrived quasi-symmetry. He places his face on the lens of the camera and against a background created by the mirror of the title. This effect jars both the eye and the mind--particularly the former in light of Adams's odd, transfixed expression. Again, the viewer wonders at the implicit contrast to Adams's pristine landscapes. When viewing these photographs, one might also consider how Adams addresses issues like the onslaught of industry and the alienation of the artist...
...Some were dissidents under the old regime; others were minions of Moscow who embraced nationalism only when it was expedient. When the abortive coup in August accelerated the disintegration of the union, sovereignty went from a slogan to a realistic, negotiable objective. Provincial politicians looked in the mirror and saw statesmen and strategists. They started having second thoughts about whether sending local Soviet missile crews packing was a good idea after all. Nuclear storage facilities and launch sites suddenly looked less like imperial outposts and more like valuable assets that might come in handy as the republics bargain with...
...house he finds a mirror "with the silver mostly gone, as if all its reflections had worn it through." He hikes to the spot near Bazaar where, in 1931, the Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne and seven other men died in a plane crash, after which local people carried pieces off for keepsakes. A woman tells him about running a health-food restaurant in a little burg called Cottonwood Falls: "We never did get the farmers to eat alfalfa sprouts. They know silage when they...
...Psycho sends a message to the would-be artist- "sensitivity" and "decency" should be valued more than honesty. Ellis may not be able to shock the reader, or to show our society anything new. Americans are too far gone for that. But if Ellis can show his readers a mirror of themselves, his work should be available for those who are not afraid to look...