Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been so nervous for two weeks about the speech I was going to give when I was running for student council president in 12th grade. I practiced in front of the mirror every evening until I could recite it by heart. I picked out the perfect outfit: an off-white twinset, a flowing knee-length navy blue skirt, navy pumps, and nude control-top sheer panty-hose. I was holding my head high, trying to look confident while walking onto the podium. To calm myself, I tried to imagine everyone in the audience in their underwear. People started giggling...
...room, but here the pallet conjures up the aura of an Arabian harem. Paisley print canopies billow across the bed frame and ceiling, dimming the light to a romantic incandescence. Lava lamps rest mounted from the bed frame and a teddy bear reclines near the pillows while the ubiquitous mirror paneling covers the adjacent walls. "It's so comfortable, I can't get out of bed," Weidle comments...
Naturally, the third set was a mirror image of the first two--back-and-forth and very tense...
...Before then, actually. I've always been delusional. I've always stood in front of the mirror and thought, "Goddam. You are a powerful and attractive...
...last week, rightly insisted that the story of slavery is not just African-American history but American history. But for blacks like me, it's also family history, a link to the oppressive past so intense and personal that it stares back whenever we look in a mirror...