Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...
...first issue of the Star punched pretty hard, meaning that it was difficult to distinguish it from its rivals. The main selling point is a daily "Starbird," a full-page bare-breasted crumpet on page 7 (the Sun usually carries its cuties on page 3, the Mirror on page 5 or 7). The Star's top Stories: MODEL'S MYSTERY PLUNGE (she fell all of 12 ft. from the window of her lover's flat and broke her ankles), I WAS HIDING DRINK IN THE GROCERIES (a soccer player's drinking problem), BEAUTY AND THE PRIEST...
...Mirror was the very model of restraint, running only its usual page 7 pinup. Chairman Percy Roberts had been quoted as promising, "The Daily Mirror will not go down into the gutter to join the war between the Star and the Sun.' Some Britons thought the Mirror had been somewhere in that vicinity all along, however, and the Star's London editor, Peter McKay, snorted, "Humbug...
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror. Barbara W. Tuchman∙American Caesar, William Manchester∙E.M. Forster: A Life, P.N. Furbank∙In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie∙ Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn