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...they are between visits to the hairdresser. Also, they may want them for after the pool or the gym, or just to get a different look." Sometimes the look is a little too different: Nina Blanchard, owner of a model agency, picked up a flame-colored number, faced the mirror and shrieked: "Red Skelton in drag...
...reverence for tradition, the English theater retains the renown of greatness because it has behind it an unseen but not an unheard god, the English language. This wonder of wonders is a verdant isle of beauty, a tiara of crystalline delight, a font of wit and wisdom, a burnished mirror of the mind. Born to a noble tongue, Maggie Smith serves it nobly...
...HERO, the character is doubtful of its gender. Most accurately, (s)he is Miss Brophy's way of saying "I." It is a mock "I," however. As Miss Brophy notes in an aside: "I'm playing games, like a painter who includes in his picture a mirror in which he shows himself standing outside the picture painting...
...fellow (5 ft. 7 in., 205 Ibs.) who looks like a Cheshire cat, dresses like Cecil Beaton, talks like Otto von Bismarck and operates like Jimmy Valentine. "Every team," he says, "should have its own style that reflects the personality of the coach." The Kansas City Chiefs are a mirror image of both sides of Stram's personality: courteous, reliable and trustworthy off the field; coruscating, resourceful and a little terrifying on it. When it comes to dealing with players, Stram has every grain of Vince Lombardi's starchiness: $50 a minute is the price of tardiness...
...panels depict what appear to be scenes from the lives, deaths and funeral rites of the occupants of the tombs. One, for instance, shows a helmeted warrior seated on a powerful black horse and grasping a banner. He is met by a heavily rouged woman holding a mirror to his face to capture the image of his soul. Another shows a white man with a carefully trimmed beard boxing with a Negro. The black man is getting the worst of the fight, and there is blood on his back. ("The ancients must have had race problems, too," says Napoli...