Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Credo: there are real problems in Latin America--war, hunger, anarchy and Catholicism. The novel is an expansive, flexible literary form. It can mimic the diffuse, confusing format of a world run amok...
Recent short stories in America are chronicling the American malaise of boredom. In much the same way that Latin American writers have made the novel a symbol of the fantastic convolutions and discombobulations of their history, American short story writers choose their form to mimic the small problems that beset us. A novel about boredom would be boring...
...tout his newly-refurbished party apparatus. After he did away with the messy minority caucuses and added the Policy Commission, I co-authored a position paper to help create a new image for the Democrats. But I wrote it on the naive assumption that they were not looking to mimic Ronald Reagan's message, but to create a new one they could actually call their own. Silly...
...brothers of Lennon and McCartney made pilgrimages to the Cavern, to Brian Epstein's record store, to the holy homes of the Fab Four. Teenagers from Connecticut assumed the adenoidal lilt of the Mersey accent and recited lines from A Hard Day's Night with the fervor of mimic acolytes. It was not only the Beatles' music that inspired this love for all things Liverpudlian. It was the discovery of an English city -- working class and influenced by Irish and American adventurers -- that had seen it all and was not easily impressed. A fond parodic cynicism rode the crest...
...processing computers that are nearly as ambitious, and a pair of start-up companies, Encore and Sequent, are finding a ready market for more modest parallel machines. Meanwhile, research teams across the U.S. are experimenting with even more radical designs. Among them: AT&T Bell Laboratories computer circuits that mimic the action of the billions of neurons in the human brain. "It's a time for experimentation," says Illinois' Smarr. "There are 1,000 flowers blooming...