Word: mirrorized
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...carries water to men laying tracks for a railroad. A Jesuit priest contemplates a South American waterfall. G-men pursue gangsters across a bridge. A boy peeks through a projection-booth window to see a movie or through a keyhole to watch a beautiful woman slowly undress before her mirror...
...decker buses and coffee shops. Since scientists have not figured out the cause behind women’s infertility, there is no scientific jargon to justify categorization as science fiction. Furthermore, the film’s major issues—immigration, the environment, and politically sanctioned force—mirror our concerns today. Although they’re startlingly severe, it’s not difficult to imagine their current counterparts developing in similar directions given our current policies. And precisely because of how ultimately plausible the film is, the messages it conveys are all the more compelling and poignant...
...Filonov's analytical art wasn't about mere technique. He took up Leonardo da Vinci's belief that an artist should be more than just a mirror that "reflects objects without having any knowledge of them." Filonov wanted to perceive and render the inner nature of things rather than their external appearances. The artist's real objective, as Kruchenykh put it, was "to see through the world." To achieve that, Filonov wrote to a young colleague back in 1940, "An artist must be a thoroughly educated analyst and researcher...
...former club, the Golden State Warriors, a woman shouted at him from the stands in Miami. "Gilbert! I'm your mom!" she declared. Arenas froze. After the game, Mary Francis Robinson gave him her phone number. He still hasn't called. "I used to look in the mirror, and all I wanted from God was to one day meet her," Arenas says. "He gave me that wish. That...
...said, ''What trick are you trying to play? Your only way out is to bow your head in submission. Otherwise you will suffer.'' She shook her fist in front of my nose and spat on the floor. Another young man used a stick to smash the mirror hanging over the blackwood chest facing the front door. He tore the mirror's carved frame off its hook and hurled it against the banister. On the hook, he hung a small blackboard with a quotation from Mao: ''When the enemies with guns are annihilated, the enemies without guns still remain...