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Meadow, noting that people tend to think of bodybuilders as a vain group, said that nothing could be further from the truth in his case. "When I look in the mirror, I'm not seeing how handsome I am, but how a certain shape is developing. I study the relation of these shapes to one another," he explained...
...government was systematically corroding and stifling our artistic life," Rostropovich said last year. "They wanted to prove that we did not exist. We were treated like lepers. We lost our identity. It was like looking into a mirror and not finding your reflection. In Russia," he said with characteristically vivid imagery, "if one blade of grass grows higher than another, they send in bulldozers to trim it down...
...Mirror. When each lab representative showed up at the clinic to make his pitch, the conversation was jotted down by a secretary; some of the sessions were photographed through a one-way mirror. The material was turned over to the U.S. Justice Department for possible prosecution. Later investigation disclosed other kinds of fraud besides bribery. Some labs were in the habit of offering two sets of prices for tests, one for private patients and a higher one for Medicaid recipients. An examination of 20,000 laboratory billings showed that the median overcharge for Medicaid patients...
...nothing else, Pasqualini's captors insist on form. The inmates are kept near starvation and Pasqualini is horrified by the sight of his body in a mirror: His skin sags slack and bruised from contact with the communal plank bed. Nonetheless, when someone filches food, it cannot be from hunger, and he is "struggled." After three days of hooting, Pasqualini begs relief from the warder for everyone involved: "He admits he stole the bread. He was hungry. Isn't that enough? Do we have to make him say he is a dirty bourgeois because he was hungry?" The warder responds...
Mollenhoff's gradual shift from pro-Nixon optimism to active opposition and vocal criticism is not engulfed in ideological aversion or vindictive "I-told-you-so" triumph, as are the views of so many Watergate litterateurs. Mollenhoff's experience can be viewed as a mirror of the thought processes of most Americans during the Nixon debacle, the majority who elected Nixon out of confidence in his ability to erase the mistakes of the Johnson years, people who were initially unwilling to accept the disclosures of illegal practice, but who gradually found their doubts eradicated by the snowballing evidence of wrongdoing...