Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the possibility of facing the end of your life's work stares back at you in the mirror in the morning, that's an awful lot of pressure. And it's one thing if your name is Nicklaus and you at least get to make that decision; far, far worse is it to have that option taken away before it can be chosen...
...That mirror is like the witching glass in Snow White. Elsewhere on the album, it can reflect dark corridors as Young free-associates, remembering on the title track, for example, a friend who died too soon. In the second verse of Western Hero, Young sounds as if he had been touched by the D-day memorials just past, but instead of summoning old shades once again, his lyric constructs a taut envoi to American idealism...
...summons up autumnal reveries of shadows climbing a garden wall and the first leaf that falls. The aging but still loving couple in the song inquire gently after each other's welfare, reassert their love and realize, "It's the prime of life, where the spirit grows/And the mirror shows both ways...
...such nostalgic tunes as You'll Never Know and Moonglow, then flares into the peculiarly middle-class ugliness of verbal violence, rancor and self-pity. By the end, audiences should be thinking that the window through which they have seen the sins of the junior executive class is a mirror into their own messy hearts...
...poll indicates America has had enough of the Simpson saga. The Times-Mirror survey found 90% of those polled said the media deluge had burned them...