Word: mirrored
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...brother--and the story of a local Vegas gambling prince whose murder is a cautionary tale about the price of forbidden pleasures. Positively Fifth Street--the title is poker slang for the last, and often crucial, card in a hand of Texas hold'em--takes us into a mesmerizing mirror world peopled by lost souls for whom a game has become more important than real life. It's a fascinating place to visit, but you wouldn't want to die there. --By Lev Grossman
...Small mirror helps soldiers see around corners or under doors...
...Fleetwood Discovery, and he didn't even need to supersize it. And in January, after finishing his second term as Governor of Maine, Angus King set out with his family on a five-month cross-country odyssey in his big Newmar Dutch Star, which in place of a rearview mirror has a dashboard video screen hooked up to an aft-mounted camera...
...what it was like to be Leslie. He seemed so pleased in there, in the fairy-tale kingdom of Cheung, but he may have felt that his castle was crumbling, that his subjects were restless. (Tony Leung was landing the big roles Leslie wanted.) And perhaps the mirror told him he was no longer the fairest...
...angel’s absence, Marisol mingles with a string of strange characters that both shield and threaten her in this destitute landscape, and generally serve to introduce the gamut of this staged world’s social ills, which Rivera suggests, mirror our own. But in his attempt to tackle both epic, existential themes and a countless number of particular social evils, Rivera sacrifices coherent plot structure and consistently well-developed characters...