Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days of fighting, not one room remained unscarred. A rifle bullet smacked into the wall above my bed while I typed in the bathroom. I thought bathrooms were safe until a .50-cal. bullet smashed through a balcony into a fourth-floor room, penetrated the bathroom wall, shattered the mirror and landed, spent, in the bathtub. The hotel was indirectly pasted by Rudolph the Recoilless Rifle, a monstrous weapon stationed outside by the army. Every time Rudolph was fired, its deafening blast shattered one more of the windows in the lobby walls...
...another century or their homes in another country. Except for that grand exception: Luis Buñuel. The Old Aragonese, 70, has reached a modus vivendi with Franco Spain, and returned to create in Tristana a coda of inexhaustible power and sophistication. Like the world reflected in a convex mirror, every element is in this masterwork -but somehow transfigured and amplified. People are themselves and something other. Even the film's title has a dual meaning: Tristana suggests "sadness," and is the name of its heroine, impeccably played by Catherine Deneuve...
...other boys to the sacraments, but the twin solaces turned out to be opium and work. He puffed on the pipes on and off for the rest of his life. In a befogged period of the '20s, he retired to Villefranche and spent his days staring in the mirror and drawing his own picture. Intermittent cures were painful and ineffectual. During one, he wrote: "In my legs there is a queue of ten thousand people standing waiting for the opening of ticket windows that don't open." Yet he was never idle. As Phelps points out, he published...
...understood friendship, conversation, the normal amenities of social exchange." And later. The two in bed, he shouts at her, "Well go to sleep, cunt. Go to sleep. Die. Fucking vegetable." Fucking vegetable, he shouts at her in bed, little realizing that in her catatonia Maria is only holding a mirror up to the more frenetic stiffs surrounding...
...transposition. In an operation developed by Dr. Leonard Ru bin of Hempstead, N.Y., the temporalis muscle, which runs from the temple to the jawbone, is split into three sections. These are then separated and connected to the patient's eye, mouth and cheek. After considerable practice before a mirror, a patient can learn to use the transposed muscle to control winking or smiling. The operation returns a near-normal appearance to the face at rest...