Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edith Adams, probably no better at singing than Betty. Why did he do it? Explained Paar: "We're on the air 15 hours a week, mostly without script, so everyone has to double in brass. Edith Adams can do any dialect, sing in Italian, German and French, and mimic personalities from Louis Armstrong to Marilyn Monroe. What's more, she's full of ideas, and ideas are what we live...
...jazz age has its echoes all over the world. In Japan, singers eagerly mimic Ella Fitzgerald while dancers gyrate in the "Fallaway Twist" and the "Natural Hover Whisk." Scandinavia has a local growth of "cool" jazz, and France has an unquenchable thirst for le jazz hot. In Britain, shops are doing brisk business in the "GENUINE 'Mr. B.' Shirt with its wide roll collar as worn by the Famous American Singing Star BILLY ECKSTINE." The Communists are paying their own kind of compliment: in the East German town of Aue last week, Red police jailed members...
...made himself the Picasso of the profession. He can enclose what he sees in a few simple lines, like bent coat hangers, or dissolve it into a haze of dots, a la Seurat. He draws on top of photographs, and occasionally draws imitation snapshots. He can and does mimic passports, old maps, and documents with ink drawings that look fairly convincing and 100% illegible. He will make a thumbprint do for a man's face, a chest of drawers for an office building and a soft roll for an automobile...
...Shut up Deacon, you're drunk." The mimic...
...Koch minces and skips his way effectively through such numbers as "If You Want a Receipt," proving himself worthy as Gilbert's "ultra poetical, super aesthetical, out-of-the-way young man." Miss Frothingham, as the imposing spinster, Lady Jane, combines husky voice and long arms in an admirable mimic of the decaying but determined old maid...