Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years papers reveal a much more complicated character than his comicbook legend suggested. He was an American original-a brilliant actor who played the aristocratic warrior or the cussing, jingo-spouting brute, depending on his audience. He once admitted to his aide that he practiced ferocious expressions in the mirror, but he despaired of ever having what he called "a real fighting face." He believed in the natural superiority of Americans in general and himself in particular; the ugly side of that self-confidence was a streak of contemptuous racism, reactionary smugness and brutality toward those he regarded as slackers...
...that Tadeusz Witold Szulc (pronounced Schulz) has reported foreign news, he has occasionally found himself between man-made calamities. Not to worry; Szulc has a talent for cultivating his own scoops and controversies. In fact, he is unique among foreign-affairs reporters. In a press corps that tends to mirror the genteel and cautious ways of diplomats, Szulc comes on like a Chicago police reporter-except for the fact that he speaks seven languages. While colleagues are parsing communiques, Szulc cultivates CIA men or pores over Air Force shipping records to find out where U.S. arms are going...
Vietnam: Still America's War produced by A.T.V., a British Independent Network narrated by John Piter of London's Daily Mirror available for distribution from the Old Cambridge Baptist Church...
...largest number of artists represented in "Photography Unlimited" use darkroom effects such as distortion, unnatural color, and sandwiched transparencies to explore the realm of dreams and private fantasy. Photography, which has so long been used to mirror the physical world, is here being used to mirror the individual psyche. Many of the images thus created-especially Robert Heinecken's "Cliche Vary/Fetishism" and Ellen Land-Weber's large picture of a small child and a pink house being swallowed by vegetation--are striking and sophisticated images that haunt the viewer and remind him that there are few completely private thoughts. More...
Occasionally, she will photograph herself in a mirror--in a funhouse with her grand-children or in the window of a junkshop on San Francisco's Geary Street. Her figure is a strange one, a tiny body swathed in a black cape, an intriguingly wrinkled, amused looking face with a receding chin, the light catching the mirrors of the small, multi-colored Indian cap she always wears. "I photograph anything that can be exposed to light," she says, but complains about too much philosophizing on photography. "People will just have to look at my stuff and make up their...