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...nation. A Cleveland man proposed boring tiny holes in each pane to equalize pressure inside and out. A Maryland convict advised Hancock to put boxes under each window to catch the glass fragments. One superstitious woman even told the insurance company to "sell the building," since every broken mirror-window represented seven years of bad luck-20,000 years of it in total. Instead, each flawed window has been temporarily replaced with sheets of plywood, leading Bostonians to nickname the building "the Plywood Palace...
...this christening would be of dubious value. Nixon's public approval rating hovers near an historic low point. Under normal circumstances, the resignation of a vice president would reflect badly on his president. But in Nixon's case, the mirror is already so murky that one more bit of tarnish won't make much difference...
...acres of new glass will retain the unique reflective quality of the original glass, which was designed to mirror the clouds...
...Gico even seems capable of controlling the audience. "Watch the mirrors," she instructs them, in a reference to the mylar-coated reflecting panels which encircle the stage. "Every eye is a mirror," she adds mysteriously, and all of the actors immediately freeze, staring intently at the audience for what was obviously an uncomfortably long time for many of the patrons. The unusual interlude greatly increased the audience's need for the play; their relief was evident when movement began on the stage as suddenly as it had ceased...
...Hope, 70, is celebrating his 23rd year on TV and with Actress Ann-Margret, 32, enacts his version of the Billie Jean King/Bobby Riggs tennis match. Playing out of a phone booth while talking to his agent, occasionally reading a magazine, looking at her backward through a mirror or milking a cow, "Bobby Higgs" is handily beating an irate "Billie Jean Margret." Until she starts doing bumps and grinds, at which point he strips down to star-spangled shorts and starts a verbal rally. "I've a better forehand, backhand and much prettier legs," Higgs boasts. "Are those your...