Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Room of One's Own, Woolf wrote, "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." Because women would adoringly (or pseudo adoringly) mirror men to themselves at twice their real stature and worth (thinks Woolf), the men, thus encouraged, felt wonderful and set forth to build empires. The inclination of American women today is not to mirror men at all, but to judge them at their true size at best -- and sometimes to evaluate them at half-size or quarter-size. Perhaps...
...debate involves some of the most obscure arcana in the tax code: interest capitalization, mirror loans and Section 351 Transfers, to name a few. But here are some guideposts...
Some tax experts contend that if Whitewater assumed the mortgage loan on the property, then only the corporation, not its individual owners, could deduct any subsequent interest payments. In some cases, that tax consequence could be avoided through a device called a "mirror loan" or a "back-to-back loan"; Lindsey says he thinks the Clintons used such an arrangement but is not sure. Partner McDougal, however, says he never heard of any such thing. Experts consulted by TIME assert that if there were such a loan arrangement, it should have left a paper trail on the Clintons' tax returns...
...pillow by her uptight husband, fed up with nights at the opera among his colleagues and days of packing trunks for his business trips, a '50s housewife lapses into reverie. In her mind and in apparent actuality on stage, she slips his embrace, walks to the mirror and sees another woman. They look, smile, touch and ultimately dance a stately, sensual ballroom swirl of self-discovery...
Diane Stillman is watching a very large dresser with attached mirror hurtle toward her across her bedroom. Having lived in Los Angeles all her life, the 43-year-old paralegal knows she is in an earthquake. And she herself isn't hurt. What worries her is her mother, 83 and legally blind, living several blocks away. The trick, once Diane gets out from under the dresser, is leaving her apartment in the Northridge Meadows complex in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley and making sure her mother is all right. As Stillman crosses her bedroom, she thinks, this must have been...