Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...totalitarian world of Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell imagined that the Thought Police would rely on a ubiquitous "oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror" to keep the citizens of Oceania brainwashed and obedient: "The instrument (the television, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely." That prophecy turned out spectacularly wrong. TV, along with radio, computers, modems, copiers and fax machines, caused big trouble for Big Brother in 1989. Once the more repressive precincts of the global village were wired for glasnost, legions of little brothers whispered subversion in everyone...
...writings were communist leaders, whom he sometimes denounced by name, his ultimate targets were fellow citizens, whose crime lay in getting along by going along. His moral courage was accompanied, as is often the case with self-selected martyrs, by flashes of stiff-necked arrogance. He seemed to mirror himself in the descriptive name of his most autobiographical character, Nettle, pricking the complacency of what he saw as a materialistic nation...
...pictures from the room she and Victor have rented: "When I took them from the wall I noticed that the spaces the frames had occupied were a darker shade than the rest of the wall." When she feels the need to conduct a reality check, Hilary looks in the mirror: "I have clear skin and nice, square shoulders. My hair shines like it did when I was seven and I have a smart-looking face...
...this suggest a new post-cold-war foreign policy that casts the U.S. as % a different kind of world policeman, acting to save democracy rather than to stop Soviet expansionism? Administration officials vehemently deny any attempt to proclaim a Bush Doctrine of once a democracy always a democracy -- a mirror image of the now discredited Brezhnev Doctrine of once communist ever communist...