Word: mirrorized
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...paper, while skilled docents use working models to repeat Leonardo's experiments. At nearby computer terminals, museumgoers view digitized images of the manuscript close up, reading English translations alongside Leonardo's Italian, zeroing in on specific drawings and flipping back and forth between the master's idiosyncratic mirror-image writing and ordinary script. (The left-handed Leonardo wrote backward for comfort--not, as myth has it, for protection against prying eyes...
...third man rebolted a pair of flight-control rods to two hookups that relayed the pilot's tug on his control stick to the movable flaps that control the plane's flight. Mueller, a highly regarded 17-year Air Force mechanic, double-checked the work with a mirror and flashlight...
...MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE STATE DEPARTMENT WALL...
...together at last. But in modern America, where the rich--nouveau spendthrifts aside--are careful not to act rich, and the poor think they're middle class, and therefore have no hesitation about aspiring above their stations, this plot doesn't work anymore. Instead, we have items like The Mirror Has Two Faces, where the thing keeping Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges) and Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) apart is, of all things, the celibate ideal...
...distracts from the desperation of his basic conceit. Bridges is a terrific actor, but, putting it mildly, he's miscast in the Doris Day role. And Streisand is a terrific presence, but also a performer who never forgets who she really is. Since she directed, co-produced and wrote Mirror's love theme, she is not about to let us forget it, either. "Second Hand Roses" have been part of her act, part of her calculations, for over 30 years, during which time we have learned that sooner or later the guy is going to respond to her inner light...