Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...spin out cliffhangers about powerful, tragic families. Who could blame 40 million Americans for taking their pleasures with TV's best and baddest? Come Friday nights this fall, the country will become one huge eavesdropping family, as the denizens of Dallas provide 25 more gilded, high-gloss mirror images of domestic America. For if the show's spectacular success proves anything, it is that when the chemistry is right, oil and soap...
...copied mannerisms of people he came across. First, he said, "I work on the voice. Perhaps this comes from my radio days. After that I establish how the character walks. And then suddenly something strange happens. The person takes over. I stare at my own image in the mirror waiting for the other fellow, the man I'm going to portray, to emerge-to stare back at me. And then it happens. I have the feeling that the film character enters my body as if I were a kind of medium. It's a little frightening...
This striving has a romantic edge. Jack is also a man in search of his double, which he sees in his son. Kubrick never hesitates to shoot whole sequences through a mirror; two heart-stopping moments are the work of simple reflections. In the mirrors, Jack sees his second self, the self that has fallen under the hotel's influence...
...reason is simply that it is easier for society to find someone to blame than to hold up a mirror and see that U.S. culture itself is largely responsible. But the new complaints about teachering also arise from a dismaying discovery: quite a few teachers (estimates range up to 20%) simply have not mastered the basic skills in reading, writing and arithmetic that they are supposed to teach...
...strongest sign of the new acceptance of male cosmetics is the surge in male facials. At Georgette Klinger's mirror-and-chrome emporium on Manhattan's Madison Avenue, men now account for 20% of business. All day long a stream of admen, lawyers and bankers settle back in plush barber chairs to have their faces anointed and cleansed with an exotic array of creams, masks and steam baths...