Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conclude that Air Force One and the marvelous technology that sends it round the globe have become a kind of a presidential hobby, replacing the medicine ball (Hoover) and the stamp collection (F.D.R.). Crew members lather that beautiful plane with Glass Wax before a trip, polish it to a mirror finish with compressed-air buffers and add tire black to the ten wheels. They fill the hold with the tenderest chicken and juiciest steak, packing it all away in dry ice with flawless precision so that each day's meals come up on top in the proper order...
...milk that the girl can hardly hold. Upstairs, there is an old woman (Theresa Giehse), an invalid who tells the girl. "You have a very vivid imagination." After a while the old woman dies, but is brought back to life by a young man (Joe Dallesandro) who holds a mirror in front of her face. Observing all this, the young girl mentions in passing that "all is illusion...
...province of Ksar es Souk. While awaiting orders to cross the Spanish Saharan border 21 miles to the south -the "go" signal may be given this week -bejeweled women and turbaned men formed semicircles around dervishes who whirled to the beat of tambourines and clapping hands. Younger marchers, sporting mirror sunglasses and carrying transistor radios, kept up a steady chant of "the Sahara belongs to us" and "the Sahara is Moroccan...
...square by square, on the walls of not-exactly-a-gallery in Central Square, are three NASA glossies; and the mirror in the helmet almost grins...
With her back to the large mirror she held the one small one so that she could see her back. A shiny, pale pink seam ran down the lower part of her spine; near the top of her left buttock, the crescent scar where they'd taken the bone for the spinal fusion matched the large seam in color. She shivered. In the six years since the operation she had never looked at her naked back...