Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Crispiniano de la Santisíma Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. Seizing nature by the hair, he joyously twists, tears, chops, stretches and mauls her to create new faces never before shown to mortal men. "What is a human face?" asks Picasso. "Who sees it correctly-the photographer, the mirror or the painter? Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind...
...Girl Before a Mirror (see color pages), painted in 1932, was a striking example of his vast capacity for forcing any number of conflicting "things" and means to serve his ends. Its lozenge-patterned background and thick black lines recall stained glass. Its involved, curlicue composition relates to Chinese calligraphs. The girl's head has a playing-card look, yet it seems also to symbolize the sun as its reflection does the moon. Her violently distorted body appears to be clothed, nude, and Xrayed, all at one time. She is quietly contemplating herself, yet the picture is an anything...
...next morning at 7 he was breakfasting in the Jefferson's mirror-hung Crystal Room with the particular segment of the 35th closest to his heart: the aging warriors of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, whom he had commanded in France. That afternoon, while 250,000 people cheered along St. Louis' sun-baked downtown streets, he led them-and the rest of the 35th - in a 16-block parade...
...included U.S. jazz and a quiz program. The winners carried off armloads of shoes, shirts, dresses, loaves of bread. Some of the youngsters were suspicious of the friendliness they encountered. The owner of a big Berlin movie theater invited the kids to come and see the show (The Dark Mirror, with Olivia de Havilland). Afterward, one 16-year-old thanked the manager: "It was very nice indeed. Yet when I come to think of it, why did you invite us? There was nothing political in the film? I've got to think it over...
...coming 5? tabloid Mirror, which claims its circulation has risen from 161,188 to 193,924 in the last six months, plumped in favor of the ordinance. But Hearst's Herald & Express (circ. 348,543), figuring that the law might cost it some 12,000 daily street sales, denounced the whole thing as just a Mirror plot...