Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many years older. How could it be otherwise?" Tichy also bumps into a man who has cloned himself and another who has created an eternal soul, its complex circuitry imprinted in sturdy crystal. Still another acquaintance thinks the cybernetic revolution has failed its promise by simply trying to mimic applied human intelligence. He labors to create disobedient devices: "If I present you with a machine that extracts square roots from even numbers but doesn't want to from odd numbers, that's no defect, damn it, that's an achievement...
Parody is Christopher Durang's native element. He can mimic and spoof manners, trends and styles of speaking in ways that inflict the sting of truth just as surely as those of a good caricaturist. But Durang tends to end his plays unconvincingly, in a spasm of violence, as if he had been brooding on deeper things all along-like, say, man's fate. It is as if the playwright as jester suddenly dropped his mask and wished to be acknowledged as a thinker. These two one-acters at Manhattan's Playwrights Horizons Theater display both Durang...
Ranging from the carefree chirit, a long-bodied squirrel that moves by hunching its body inchworm-style, to the flooer, whose large pinkish ears mimic a flower to attract edible bees, Dixon's future zoo may suggest an imagination gone wild. But he is talking about a period 50 million years from now. And nature, the great experimenter, has already created creatures just as outrageous. -By Peter Stoler
Though they are made to mimic the appearance of the more expensive amphetamines, look-alike drugs contain no federally controlled substances (i.e., with a high potential of dangerous abuse). Their primary ingredients are caffeine, a stimulant; ephedrine, a vascular constrictor; and phenylpropanolamine (PPA), a chemical cousin of amphetamines. The danger lies not in the kinds of chemicals they contain but in the amount. Whereas the average diet-aid capsule may contain about 50 mg of PPA and between 100 mg and 200 mg of caffeine, a look-alike capsule can carry...
Confecting an English accent was easy for her; "I think of myself as a great mimic." Classical training also helped, "primarily in getting me used to wearing a corset for hours at a time." Playing Sarah posed problems "because the reasons for her actions were so vague. I knew only that she was 'ambitious.' And because so much was covered up during Victorian times, I had to come on as though there was a fire inside, while remaining outwardly calm. I had, as the English say, to be careful about not going over the top. I played the monologue like...