Word: mirrored
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...Ryan's, bless him) while their waistlines spread. When the pitcher appears on TV in an Advil commercial and drawls, "Ah feel ready to go another nahn innin's," all of middle-aged America cheers him on. What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan...
...film's Mars is Earth's cracked mirror image: a domed underworld of freak psychics and three-breasted prostitutes, ruled by a tyrant from whom the colonists must buy air, and he has just jacked up the price. It is on Mars, toward the end, that Total Recall slows down to tie up its plot and provide each villain with an appropriately gruesome demise. It goes wussily misterioso when Quaid meets a Yodaesque guru. But even when the film flirts with becoming ordinary, it is propelled by the stolid charm of Schwarzenegger, who carries the whole movie as easily...
...worst from Germany's past but also something just as bad that may lurk in their own future. These twin dreads interact powerfully, if not quite logically. As Gorbachev at least tacitly acknowledges, in his country rationality is as scarce as soap these days. The outside world is a mirror into which Soviets look and wince...
...murder stunned a city already beset by spiraling racial tensions. To many New Yorkers it symbolized a breakdown in racial civility that had no quick explanation or readily available cure. Some of the youths accused of killing Hawkins were jobless school dropouts with histories of drug abuse -- mirror images in whiteface of underclass young black males. The whites had armed themselves on the night of Aug. 23 because the former girlfriend of their alleged leader, Keith Mondello, had invited black and Hispanic guests to her birthday party. They mistook Yusuf and his comrades for those guests...
...People hate to look in the mirror and say, "You know something? I gave it my all. I trained as hard as I could. And I'm not worth a s---." Excuse my French, but nobody wants to accept that...