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...Princess Anne's mood in the U.S. as blue as her royal blood? London's Sunday Mirror last week blamed "the witches of Washington." Wrote Mirrorwoman Paula James: "Everywhere that Anne went, the witches went too-pushing and shoving the Princess and asking questions." In remarkably similar language, another London Sunday paper hissed that Washington's "ladies of the broomstick" harassed Anne. And who are the witches? The unsigned piece in The People meowed: "The group of ill-mannered ragbags who call themselves social columnists...
...reach my center, my algebra and my key, my mirror...
...tour of Capitol Hill, Senator Hugh Scott reminded Charles that a Dolley Madison mirror hanging in Vice President Spiro Agnew's ceremonial office was from the days "when your ancestors burned the White House," and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond gave the prince his senatorial calling card. Anne perked up briefly to offer the undiplomatic, yet reasonable observation that the bald eagle was "rather a bad choice" as the American national symbol. The royal pair asked why it had been selected, and none of their escorts, who included House Speaker John McCormack and House Minority Leader Gerald Ford...
Humor is civil war, even to the point of paralysis, between the part of man who wants to play God and the part of man who knows a real God when he sees one-and he is not that pompous character staring back from the mirror with egg stains on his shirt and his fly half-zipped, asking "What's so funny...
...startling departure from the script, Maggie Smith as Hedda strides silently onto the empty stage. Clad severely in white, she is pale and tense, her features a mask of mortal exhaustion and despair that might have been painted by Edvard Munch. She smokes, paces, contemplates herself in a mirror, stares moodily, doubles over in a spasm of nausea. All of the contradictory qualities that are to make up her mordantly gripping performance she foreshadows in mime: hauteur and anxiety, narcissism and feelings of revulsion toward her femininity, commanding energy and naked vulnerability. In overture and miniature the theme has been...