Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Things are open and exposed, somehow, and with no ivy or bricked streets you feel more vulnerable, look in the rear-view mirror for the old Attica boys tooling down the highway with the trusty thirty-odd-six strapped to the dashboard. Vicious radar traps; Rocky's drug laws, which are easy to forget if you've been sitting in the suburbs for a while, but on the thruway you pass Albany, and in the distance looms the series of edifices that the ex-governor built with Speer-like glee before he left office...
SOME NOVELISTS MAKE you feel like you're looking into a mirror. The shock of coming upon one of your innermost thoughts, perfectly expressed, is both thrilling and unsettling--it's like someone is reading your mind. For the past ten years, devoted followers have been finding their thoughts reflected back at them in the characters of British novelist Margaret Drabble. The heroines have been distinctly individual women in varying situations, yet they have never failed to spark at least a flicker of recognition...
...looking at the works as a retrospective of the major aesthetic revolutions of our time, Kupka's theoretical contribution to those revolutions should not be ignored. Nor should his artistic (well, not genius, but) talent: his sensuous lyricism, keen sensitivity, and his occasional inspiration. Kupka is a mirror worth looking...
...midst of New Zealand's election campaign, Laborite Prime Minister Wallace ("Bill") Rowling observed that if Opposition Leader Robert Muldoon wanted to know "why he is so unacceptable to many people, a quick glance in any mirror would give him the answer." Perhaps Rowling should have looked at the mirror himself. Last week, as he prepared to hand over power to Muldoon's triumphant New Zealand National Party, the outgoing Prime Minister allowed that he felt as though he had "been run over by a bus." In an upset, the conservative Nationalists won a 19-seat majority...
...years ago, Dutch Author van de Wetering won wide praise for The Empty Mirror, a fascinating account of his experiences as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery (TIME, Feb. 11,1974). Now he mixes his Western upbringing and Eastern training to emerge as, of all things, a superlative mystery writer. This first novel starts in standard fashion: a man is found hanged, slowly turning on the rope, because "bodies suspended by the neck are never quite still." What follows is hardly conventional...