Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Murdoch. The British are not all sheep, fit only for an Australian abattoir." A writer in the conservative Spectator chuckled: "All newspapers now are in for a lively time. The chips are down. You might even say the clothes are off too." The 4,925,000-circulation Daily Mirror sneered editorially at the Sun's imitativeness. In a reference to its comic-stripping blonde of the '40s and '50s, the Mirror asked: "Why not exhume Jane's great-grandmother? The old bitch would be flattered and she'd wear a miniskirt or see-through dress...
Little actual violence has occurred thus far, perhaps in part because these militant rightist groups have tiny memberships; on the 30,000 student campus at UCLA, NYA/WSL membership numbers about 15. Their tactic, however, is to mirror the most rabid leftists in dogmatism, pragmatism, and self-righteousness; since they feed off these leftists as a negative mirror image, vanity may yet catalyze an explosion. The consequences could be bloody; WSL's McGinty, for example, is a member of the Iron Cross motorcycle group, and at the rally described above Mike Brown, a leader of the group, served as his bodyguard...