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Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) was somewhat muted in his praise in his review in The Guardian of 7 December 1962 when he said, "she has of course thought up one more brilliant little peg on which to hang her plot, but the chief interest to me of The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side was the shrewd exposition of what makes a female film star tick the way she does tick.
The Mirror Crack'd is a 1980 British mystery film directed by Guy Hamilton from a screenplay by Jonathan Hales and Barry Sandler, based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962). It stars Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, and Elizabeth Taylor.
Mirour de l'Omme ("the mirror of mankind") (also Speculum Hominis), which has the Latin title Speculum Meditantis ("mirror of meditation"), is an Anglo-Norman poem of 29,945 lines written in iambic octosyllables by John Gower (c. 1330 – October 1408). Gower's major theme is man's salvation.
"The Mirror" (Welsh: Y Drych) is a poem in the form of a cywydd [1] by the 14th-century bard Dafydd ap Gwilym, widely seen as the greatest of the Welsh poets. [2] The poem describes how Dafydd, languishing with lovesickness for an unnamed Gwynedd woman, is appalled by the wasted appearance of his face in the mirror. [ 3 ] "
This fact is at odds with modern critiques of fairy tales; that "Happily ever after" often involves a man saving a helpless woman; that Disney princesses and their Grimm-penned counterparts are tame and silent compared with their princely other halves; that the stories embrace violence but never mention the more feminine grittiness of pregnancy ...
The landscape, mythology and history of Ireland, interwoven with classical themes and religious symbolism, are frequent themes in his poetry and dramatic works. A number of his radio plays were later broadcast on The BBC Third Programme and, in translation, in Germany, the Netherlands, and Hungary.
The poem became a popular clipping passed between people, and the author's credit was often dropped, leading to inquiries as to the author in newspapers as early as 1938. [ 6 ] Ann Landers printed the poem in her column on October 5, 1983, incorrectly attributing it to an anonymous man who died as a result of struggles with drug abuse.
"In a Mirror, Darkly", a 2005 episode of Star Trek Enterprise " Eu un Miroir, Obscurement ", a song by ambient drone band Natural Snow Buildings , from The Dance of the Moon and the Sun (2006) Through a Glass Productions , an American film and video production company