Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something another person has made. In a land where a man can be killed by a glass of water thrown in his face (it freezes in flight), and where the main supply of food comes from the hunt, the Eskimo has developed an uncanny sense of observation. He can mimic a stranger on sight, often fools seals by flapping his arms like flippers until he is near enough to throw a harpoon. In his art, he can catch the look of the injured bear, the tension of the hunter standing over a seal hole, the heft and hunch...
Died. J. Scott Smart, 57, radio actor and mimic who capitalized on his physique (270 Ibs. at his prime) to portray Dashiell Hammett's urbane gumshoe The Fat Man from 1946-52, with his gruff voice convinced listeners he meant it when he snarled "murder," as on other radio shows he convinced them when he squawked like an ostrich, croaked like a bullfrog, orated like Huey Long; of cancer; in Springfield...