Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Forsaking the footlights in 1922, Winchell began to pound the backstage beat in earnest for the New York Vaudeville News. He joined the New York Mirror as a columnist in 1929 and began enticing his readers with the latest on what moom pitcher star was seen handholding what sweedee pie at El Morocco. As his following grew, so too did his impudence. Throughout the 1930s, the gang at Lindy's and housewives everywhere sniggered at such items as "Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poet, just bought a new set of store teeth...
...water's edge, turning the earlier symbol of the beach as social wasteland into the psychic boundary between the conscious and sub-conscious. Picasso's surrealism, captured also in the implicit and explicit imagery of the theme of the artist and his studio, or in his "Girl before a Mirror", raised the question of identity through images now hauntingly familiar from Bergman's Persona; the struggles of the psyche distorting the very appearance of a person's face...
...What you've done, buddy, you've given your readers a glorious vision of a superannuated Holden Caulfield shoving Maalox into his mouth and peering nearsightedly into the medicine-cabinet mirror in an attempt to meditate his hairline out of receding...
...interested me, though, was watching people dance," she says. "I used to go over to Rehearsal Hall B or C and watch Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, and I'd learn all their numbers. Then I'd go home and practice for hours in front of the mirror...
...chance to sit down and relax. A depressing sight met my eyes. The control room was strewn with half empty Pepsi bottles and coffee cups interspersed with teetering piles of records and after one look at Kathy's heavy eye lids, I had no desire to hunt a mirror. Slowly we got up and began the routine of returning the records to the library, to the coffin, and to the bookbags...