Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...observations of distant galaxies that once made it world-renowned. Not far behind is the 120-in. Lick Observatory reflector atop Mount Hamilton, which is rapidly being swamped by the incandescence of the San Francisco Bay Area's expanding cities and towns. Even the 200-in. Hale mirror on Mount Palomar-the world's largest telescope-may be seriously imperiled before the decade's end by the increasing glare of San Diego and Los Angeles...
...hope you published "Mirror, Mirror" [March 15] solely to allow us commoners a rare insight into the hideous and selfish lives of the so-called "Beautiful People." Princess Pignatelli would better be called an expert in deception. When one is unable to focus on the plight of the world, then I fear...
Hicks, whose book, David Hicks on Bathrooms, is a basic text on the subject, believes that bathrooms should be "elegant and practical." His idea of simplicity is reflected in his designs for the small bathroom of Mrs. Harilaos ("Betsy") Theodoracopulos. He specified mirrors on walls and ceilings to "stretch the room out and at the same time heighten it." For surfaces, he used scrubbed stone "because of its rough, aggressive element which contrasts with the smoothness of the mirror." Many of the wall mirrors conceal storage closets. To Mrs. Theodoracopulos, the bathroom is "like fairyland...
...relative, so you slid up and down the legs of the glass table looking for the cake that said Eat Me, and waited for your prince to come. So you scribbled your initials in the dust beneath the table, so you scribbled his initials in the steamiest on the mirror, so you scribbled your initials with his last name appended on someone's dirty window, and it rained. And at college you learned that, if you go far enough, all roads lead to hell...
...keep this stuff up all my life. I should stay out of barrooms, I suppose. But I happen to like them." He has also violently struck at least one woman in a rage, and twice he has injured himself by ramming his fist against a wall and a mirror. There is gentleness and mundaneness in Scott's life as well ?he is now in a period of relative personal tranquillity?but the record leaves little doubt that when he draws on his experiences for his acting, he has considerable reserve...