Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eternally, flies quickly and kills." Before the two figures is a tumbled mass of emblems of the world: armor and a wheel-lock gun (military glory), a bishop's miter and a papal tiara (religious authority), a laurel wreath (cultural fame), money, jewels, playing cards, sheet music-and a mirror that reflects only a skull...
...including apple green, poppy red, honey blonde, Atlantic blue and flamingo pink. She changes her color about every six weeks, and she says her color choice often reflects her mood. "If I feel I am becoming a more serious person, it doesn't make sense to look in the mirror and see pink or yellow, so I dye my hair black or dark brown. But sometimes I just dye it to emphasize nature's colors. I usually dye some shade of blue in the summer, because then it doesn't seem so hot. In the fall...
...Never has so much been paid by so many to so few," said Britain's Daily Mirror after the government announced it would buy WINSTON CHURCHILL'S papers from his heirs for $20 million. The sum (paid for mostly by proceeds from the national lottery) appalled some historians and politicans, who claimed the 1.5 million documents-which include Churchill's letters to his mother, an American, and drafts of his famous speeches-are public property...
...rear-view mirror cannot be greater than the front window; otherwise, youcannot see very well," said Klaus, explaining whyhe supported forward-looking policies that wouldnot focus on his country's history...
Deciding what objects end up where isn't always easy. Buckley and her colleagues use old photos of the Union to decide "what's truly traditional and sacred and what's not...different people have different concepts of what belongs." The ornate mirrors in the appropriately dubbed Mirror Room seem to have arrived in some mysterious manner; no one really understands how the huge plates of glass got into the room, but "the Fog wants nothing to do with them," according to Buckley. "They're really just over-romanticized Victorian frames that are starting to fall apart." Still, she might...