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...first days of World War I leads inexorably to the deadlock of the trenches. The tensions and energies of fin-de-siéde Europe and America in The Proud Tower are primed to explode in that same war. And the chaos of the 14th century becomes A Distant Mirror of the modern distemper...
...dancing body challenges Government standards for a nuclear meltdown. His lithe frame, five-fathom eyes, long lashes might be threatening if Jackson gave, even for a second, the impression that he is obtainable. But the audience's sense of his sensuality becomes quite deliberately tangled with the mirror image of his life: the good boy, the God-fearing Jehovah's Witness, the adamant vegetarian, the resolute non-indulger in smoke, strong drink or dope of any land, the impossibly insulated innocent. Undeniably sexy. Absolutely safe. Eroticism at arm's length...
...while their counterparts with dark complexions fall under either fall or winter. Once she finds the subject's general categories. Thomson uses both personal preference and trial and error to further narrow the selection, draping swatches of cloth around the client's shoulders in front of a full-length mirror...
Beitz found the interviews difficult. "When I look in the mirror," she says, "I never see anything but my faults anymore. I worry about little things that never used to matter, the kinds of thing you can't change anyway...
...supposed to be a rebel and a goof-off, but with a core of sensitivity and integrity supporting his literary ambitions and his resistance to Harry's loud demands that he find steady work. But Benson is one of those performers who appear to be playing for the mirror instead of the camera; nothing interferes with his pleased self-contemplation Harry's boy should have been a mutt, the way his father must once have been,' but Benson plays him like a doggy in a pet shop window, always hoping someone will scratch his tummy...