Word: mirrored
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...home. Say just as you're pulling onto the street, a child on a bicycle crosses in front of you. A few feet later, you feel the thump of a pothole. But what if it wasn't a pothole? Suppose you hit the child. You look in your rearview mirror, and all is clear, but can you be sure? So you circle back around the block. Still clear--except for a lumpy bag of leaves on the curb. But is it a bag or a child? So you circle once more. Four hours later, you finally arrive home, mutter something...
...farewell to the series, Deathly Hallows is everything fans of Harry Potter could hope for. It does not reach the lyrical high-watermarks of the series - everyone has their favorites, mine being the final watercolor mourning scenes in Order of the Phoenix, with the mirror, the ghosts and, of course, Luna Lovegood. ("She's great, isn't she?" Ron says of Luna in Deathly Hallows. "Always good value.") But then again, this isn't a lyrical interlude, this is the grand finale. It calls for big battles and high body counts, force majeure and not legerdemain, and Rowling leaves...
...what I call the ‘great existential mysteries’—death and loss, good and evil—although for Rowling, it’s really more about power than anything else. And then there is the pairing of depression and desire: the Mirror of Erised and the Dementors, who rob you of hope. Is there anything more frightening...
...brakes. Crank the tunes. Spin the rearview mirror ball, and start tripping. Far from Bill and Ted or Harold and Kumar, this is one of the tamer scenes from the latest film by Indonesian director Riri Riza. Three Days to Forever follows two cousins of the opposite sex on a 12-hour road trip from Jakarta to Yogyakarta. Between sharing a bag of weed and, later, a mattress, the protagonists also appear to have managed the extraordinary feat of slipping by the country's infamous censorship body...
...doesn't really care for anybody except Andy," Masada says. "If he has to get a laugh at the expense of all the other comics, he doesn't care." In other words, in a profession full of narcissists, Dick is often the last one to step away from the mirror...