Word: mirrored
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...beyond all that. His view is Olympian. His camera, prowling like a house dick on roller skates, challenges you to find the crucial detail in each corner of an eight-minute opening shot. Pay attention, he says; be an adult. Watch the gorgeous gargoyles in the fun-house mirror, and you'll see more than the people who make movies stink. You might catch a glimpse of your own compromised self. Hey, babe, these days we're all players...
Specifically, I am worried about what I see as a scary mirror image of racist or sexist stereotyping. It manifests itself when people are quick to view a challenging, confusing or hurtful speaker not as an individual, but as a representative of a more abstract evil like racism. This sometimes triggers a collective response from a group that objects to the assumed evil; it rarely fosters interpersonal discussion, healing or communal understanding...
...long black leather overcoat looked around nervously as he passed by, worried that a hair might be out of place. Guys stood in the bathroom with their cream-colored, curtain-fabric jackets, satin shirts, blow-dried hair, staring at themselves in the mirror like junior high kids prepping for the final plunge onto the dance floor. But these guys were in their fifties...
...Faludi argues, demonstrate the insidious effects of the backlash. But it may also reflect the failures of the movement. Paula Kamen, 24, author of Feminist Fatale, is a fan of Faludi's. But she urges that "in this age, the women's movement has to look in the mirror." Like some other critics, Kamen thinks that Backlash lets the women's movement off too easily. "It isn't all media conspiracy...
...paints the ex-Senator as a Wall Street pawn. Of the dozen Clinton ads shown this year, the whack at Tsongas is the only one in which Clinton is barely seen and is heard not at all; an anonymous announcer does the kneecapping. Most of the other Clinton commercials mirror his candidacy -- smooth, warm, persuasive, calculated with an insider's finesse to play on the public's anger at insiders...