The two women get one awful bit of dialogue, with an elephant metaphor that nearly stomps the viewer, but until then their sparring is a funhouse mirror of real-life debates, about success and betrayal, and the question of whether the country could ever elect a female President, the underlying theme of the series.
So closely did the events of the novel mirror those of real life that its publication, and then its enormous success, ruined Goethe's relationship with Kestner, who wrote to complain about the way the author "prostituted the real persons whose features you borrow".
With increasing acceptance of object-oriented techniques, which promise close mirroring of real-world concepts in the IS artifacts, this distinction becomes even more important.
To me that was a mirror of how real, non-fictional life cannot just be slotted neatly into a pre-defined genre, but is everything at one time.
Specifically, the CyberVille 3D UI provides a mirror of a real world area, so, to continue with the example of a wind farm engineer, they would be able to see at-a-glance if one of the mills is rotating too slow without the need to either follow or understand the numerical rotating speed data.
One game, with buttons stylized á la bodega store signs, draws a crowd to actively participate in a race of gentrification, a mirror of this real-world socio-economic dilemma.
So while the cheetah robot's velocity has nothing on the spotty beast of the jungle, its ability to mirror the movements of real cats' legs is aiding further understanding of feline locomotion, and being applied to rove gingerly over rough terrain.
Many of these films have substantive ideas along with their popcorn thrills and can serve as a cracked-mirror reflection of real-life issues.
Our virtual worlds, it seems, are mirrors of our real ones — we go back and forth between the two, like a dog backing in and out of the morning grass.
But beyond apps and techno-philanthropy, it is essential for every user of the Internet to understand that she is a owner of this pervasive new world, and it is up to her to keep it civil and clean, and make it a mirror of a compassionate real world in which she hopes to live.
