Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Best Actor award from the National Society of Film Critics and, in a just world, would snag him an Oscar nomination--was like a great date with an old lover fresh from rehab. Eddie was once again cute, dazzling, working overtime to please. Relocating his strength as a mimic, he played seven characters, all brilliantly. The one unattractive figure, Buddy Love, was a wicked stretch of the Eddie Murphy personality that moviegoers had tired of: sleek, preening, abrasive, an overdog in love with itself. The other characters were marvels not just of makeup but also of comic sympathy; Sherman Klump...
...cubist, the futurist city. It expresses modern thinking in its architecture, its life, its spirit"--everything but its art, which Dada would supply. This image of the city as social compressor also comes out in Man Ray's neatly epigrammatic New York, 1917--a bunch of slats, stacked to mimic the setbacks of skyscrapers, held together by a C clamp...
...helped transform him into a self-assured young businessman. By high school he and his friends had started a profitable company to analyze and graph traffic data for the city. "His confidence increased, and his sense of humor increased," his father says. "He became a great storyteller, who could mimic the voices of each person. And he made peace with his mother...
...recital of "Day in the Life" drew the applause and whistles of many slightly older members of the crowd. Songs like "Super Bon Bon" with its wicked uptempo chorus forced many others and me into that head-nodding-and-shaking-back-and-forth motion. Doughty's onstage mannerisms mimic Rage lead singer Zack De La Rocha, and if the lyrics were about some abused people somewhere, I wouldn't have noticed the difference...
Many psychoactive drugs--including opiates, the Valium-type compounds and angel dust--mimic the action of neurotransmitters by binding to particular receptors and influencing the neuron's firing. Pharmacologists have acquired the tools to screen new drugs quickly, testing their affinity for particular receptors by cloning, or duplicating, the receptors and then designing molecules that bind to them. So refined are the new techniques that scientists now know of 14 different receptors for serotonin, the ubiquitous chemical messenger that plays a critical role in sleep, mood, depression and anxiety. They have also discerned five different receptor subtypes for dopamine...