Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family dinner table, Ros sat opposite a buffet mirror and practiced crossing her eyes and making the faces that she had found surefire in attracting her father's attention. She played billiards on the third floor with her brothers, and harmonized in the music room with her sisters. She beat out hot rhythms on her brother's trap drum and played aggressive solos on kazoo, ukulele and banjo. She admired and envied her stately older sister Clara ("The Duchess"), and made life both miserable and exciting for her younger sisters, Mary Jane and Josephine. Mary Jane recalls...
...news. First it talked of Stalin's "incapacitation" and "departure from the driver's seat," later headlined his death ERA OF 35 YEARS PASSES WITH STALIN. The New York Times used 54 full columns for the history and background of Stalin's regime. The New York Mirror summed it up in a headline: LENIN MADE STALIN-WAS SORRY...
Sign Language. In Cincinnati, Leroy Huntley accused his wife at a divorce hearing of placing gummed stickers about the house for his benefit: BE SURE TO PUT DIRTY HANDS ON THE WALLPAPER ... BE SURE TO SLOP UP THE MIRROR ... BE SURE TO MESS THIS UP ... MIGHT AS WELL PUT THE GARBAGE IN THE LIVING ROOM...
...Hunziker, 51, is an intense, self-taught artist whose chief love is Byzantine and Romanesque art. In his stained glass he tries to mirror the restrained magnificence of his anonymous idols. Restricting himself to 20 hues of glass-chosen from 15,000 commercially available-he assembles his windows with an artisan named Karl Ganz, then paints them in grisaille (i.e., grey glaze). The whole job (composing, assembling, painting, firing, leading) takes up to three years, and only when the glass is finally installed can the artist see his work as a living entity, vibrating with the light...
...names of Johns began leaking out, papers all over the U.S. played the story of the trial big. TYCOON ON PAT'S V LIST bannered the Boston Record. The Atlanta Constitution headlined its story: SOBBING CALL GIRL WEEPS OVER NAMES OF LOVE BUYERS. Punned the New York Mirror: SILENT SINERAMA IN SEX DIMENSIONS. Actually, the list of names she mentioned in court was a scattershot blast, as newsmen got it. They were unable to tell which were "clients" and which were mere "acquaintances" of Pat's. Such names as Screen Stars Mickey Rooney and George Raft, Disk Jockey...