Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Apollo crewmen to the moon was more than just "Kilroy was here" egoism. Over the course of the half a dozen landing missions, the astronauts pried loose and carried home 838.2 lbs. of lunar rocks, providing Earthbound scientists with rare tissue samples of a nearby body whose geological origins mirror the solar system's own. Priceless as the artifacts were, however, in the days of Apollo, geology was always trumped by poetry, and everybody within the space community knew...
Basically, as many of you may know, when a television host looks confidently at Camera One, he or she is in reality at the mercy of the script that is scrolling, thanks to magical mirror effects, through the lens of the camera. The administrator of these words at the X Games was none other than yours truly, entrusted with a surprisingly phallic-sized wand, the head of which I turned to move the script through the viewing screen...
...distressing, really, that there is such a top-to-bottom reliance on Harvard as the Ivy League nemesis--must they really compare themselves to Harvard? Can't a university wake up in the morning, look at itself in mirror, and (to quote the ancient semi-comedic television past), declare "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me"? Perhaps the US News and World Report has eliminated this forever, but why the constant competition...
...fall in love with her," says McGraw. "I just got lucky that she felt the same way." One day, before his set, McGraw asked her to marry him and then headed off to the stage. When he came back, she had written her answer on the mirror in his trailer...
...reelection for his Senate seat -- an accommodation engineered by Hatch?s own supporters a while back -? so he?s got nothing to lose. And of course, ego had not a little to do with it. "There?s a saying," says Carney, "that every senator wakes up, looks in the mirror and sees a president." Orrin Hatch is going to need the campaign trail to open up and swallow his competition before that happens...