Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rhomboid-shaped, mirror-walled building, it rises 60 stories from a site on Copley Square and looms over the elegant, residential Back Bay district. As soon as the project was announced in 1967, local architects attacked it as a disfiguration of the whole area. The building's size-1.6 million sq. ft. of office space-seemed sure to destroy the charm and intimate scale of Copley Square, formed mainly by Charles McKim's stately, neo-Renaissance Public Library and H.H. Richardson's Romanesque Trinity Church. Boston officials urged Hancock to reconsider its plans, but the company threatened...
...best be demonstrated by crystallizing the amino acids and passing polarized light through them; the light waves are always rotated to the left. Yet after an organism dies, its amino acids undergo a radical change. The lefthanded molecules gradually become righthanded. Although it has long been known that the mirror-like reversal progresses steadily as time passes, a practical use for the phenomenon has now been suggested: it can be used as a geological "clock" to fill important gaps in the earth's fossil records...
This further obviates the need for readers in Black English, as Stewart's readers purport to be. Written English is neither Black nor White; it is just General Shared English, a mirror of the competence of all native English speakers, black or white...
...Republican extravaganza is a faithful mirror of the party's supreme confidence, a confidence as great as it was when Ike was running and Dick Nixon was considered at best a liability -someone was always trying to get him off the ticket. Now each succeeding poll shows the G.O.P. candidate pulling farther ahead of George McGovern (see story, page 15). The news is so good that the President's supporters scarcely dare believe it-or so they say. "We're really running scared," says a White House aide, "for about one inch. People are running around...
Huston cannot wring a moment of pathos out of any of this, although there are fleeting moments of perception, as when a manager carelessly tosses a pair of newly bloodied trunks to another fighter, or when Tully stands in front of the mirror trying on some seedy clothes belonging to his girl's former lover. Hus ton also apparently abandoned his ac tors. Keach looks far too intelligent for the part. Although he does many tech nical things splendidly, he lacks emo tional force. Bridges, who was fine in The Last Picture Show, is at loose ends here...