Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report released in May by the National Collegiate Athletic Association said colleges must raise the participation rates of women athletes to mirror the proportion of women among its students...
...hardware and grand engineering projects rather than ideas, as if NASA's only constituency were the aerospace industry, has retarded rather than advanced the agency's true mission of exploring the universe. Such genuine marvels as the Hubble Space Telescope (which has returned spectacular results despite a slightly misshapen mirror), the Galileo spacecraft now on its way to Jupiter and the COBE satellite, which last year revealed details of the origin of the universe, have had to operate in the shadows, delayed and beggared by NASA's other concerns...
...heart, though, In the Line of Fire is a conversation between two sides of a smart, troubled mind. In a series of phone chats, Leary toys with Horrigan, hovers like a dark angel or a guilty conscience, lets the agent see his fun- house mirror image in an assassin's paranoid logic. Why kill the President? "To punctuate the dreariness." At the end of the cold war and the American century, Leary says, "there's no cause left worth fighting for. All that's left is the game. I'm on offense; you're on defense...
Porter's feeling for the old masters, and his oblique way of quoting them -- testing himself against them -- is quite explicit in a painting like The Mirror, 1966. It is his homage to Velazquez's Las Meninas. A young girl sits with her back to a large mirror, propped up behind her in the studio. The mirror reflects her back and, beyond that, the painter, whose posture recalls the image of the distant chamberlain at the end of Velazquez's long chamber. And yet, once you have figured out its setup, seen that the window with its blurred blaze...
Dancers were nervous; they didn't practice at home in front of the mirror until their swaggers were perfect, like the alternative crowd did. Even though the DJ sounded like he did nothing but switch the dial from ZOU to KISS all night, and even though women and men dressed to the height of the Tello's aesthetic, no one was looking to make a scene...