Word: mirrored
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...criticism of Slumdog, that would be it. It leans too heavily on this time-honored protest model, one summed up by Crash’s director, Paul Haggis, when he said in his 2005 Oscar acceptance speech that, “Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape...
...sought face lifts were less likely to have an improved sense of well-being after the procedure. In general, men - especially young men - who seek cosmetic surgery are far less likely than women - especially older women - to be happy once they can see the results in the mirror. (Read "The Young and Plastic Surgery Hungry...
...wife call out words, concepts, phrases that relate to the universe, and I stared in the mirror, and I delivered two or three sentences on each topic, in rapid fire. For each word, I would come up with two or three sentences that were informative, interesting and at best a little bit fun to listen to. I worked it. Then on the next interview, I handed them a sound bite. I essentially trained myself in sound bites. They can't edit it; they don't need to edit it. It's self-contained. You just slot it right...
...studio of Andrew Wyeth the Painter contains nothing else but what he's working on," wrote Troy. "In the center of the room sits Mr. Wyeth with a large easel in front of him. Every once in a while Mr. Wyeth gets up and walks to a mirror hanging on the wall. The first time he did this I asked him why. He answered, 'For some reason you can see the picture more clearly in the mirror than you can just looking at it.' Mr. Wyeth stepped aside and I looked into the mirror myself. Sure enough...
...Wind from the Sea Wyeth opens an upstairs window in Christina Olson's house in a room that has been closed for years, and the billowing of lace curtains lets in a sudden puff of salty air. Wyeth is moved. Abruptly glimpsing his own reflection in a dusty mirror leads to an unexpected 1949 self-portrait, The Revenant, where he stands perplexed and unbalanced in an abandoned room. The amber glass ball on a lightning rod in Northern Point looks to him "as if it were spinning in mid-air." And after four days of straddling the roof...