Word: mirrorized
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...Harvard may be forced to act because of developments outside the University A report released last month by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) said colleges must raise the participation rates of women athletes to mirror the proportion of women among its students and offered a definition of equity...
...face of tectonic cultural shifts, some men are beginning to feel beside, puzzled and dispirited. They perceive their domain as shrinking the direct result of the evil machinations of a coven of feminists. I can think of nothing more terrifying than dealing with such men, whose expectations mirror those of their unenlightened forbears, men with truncated visions...
...that is what is puzzling. The pomposities of wealthy mid-Americans in 1907 are long dead and undefended. Health faddists are still abundant and deserving of mockery, but they wear Lycra now, and their spas offer aromatherapy, Nautilus machines and biofeedback. They won't recognize themselves in Boyle's mirror. The author's characters are self-evidently foolish -- the case does not need 476 pages of proving -- and so two-dimensional that there is no question of caring about them as if they had real blood and real pain. Which leaves a reader of Boyle's cheerful and inoffensive tale...
From that moment, the traumatized boy acts deaf, dumb and blind; he responds only, and secretly, to the sight of himself in the mirror. Over the years he is molested by an uncle, tormented by a cousin, tossed like a beanbag by insensitive adolescents. At last a domestic upset ends with the mirror shattered, setting Tommy free of his autistic isolation. He flees home, becomes a tabloid curiosity and show-biz superstar. Then he returns to his family to celebrate normal life. Rather than a mystical icon of spiritual regeneration through transcendence, as he seemed at a less materialistic moment...
...FIRES IN THE MIRROR, HER ACCLAIMED off-Broadway play, Anna Deavere Smith created an unusual mix of art and journalism. In response to the 1991 Crown Heights racial disturbances (which erupted after a black youth was killed by a car driven by a Hasidic Jew), she re-created onstage the words of more than two dozen witnesses and participants, based on her own interviews. Adapted for PBS's American Playhouse (April 28), the 90-minute piece is riveting, a TV documentary as performance art. Smith precisely reproduces every word and stutter, the rhetorical bombast and silly yammerings. All seem...