Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sprinkling of actors, jazzmen and radio stars. "He lobbies hard for the most obscure people, then does them proud," says assistant editor Sidney Urquhart. "Sometimes we have to remind him that a head of state has passed away and we don't have room for that long-forgotten mimic...
...monitor. The phone bits can be funny (a viewer revealed that she served her unsuspecting boyfriend a cat-food pie), but they would work just as well if Miller simply strolled down the aisles talking to guests the old-fashioned way. Least successful are Miller's opening monologues, which mimic those of countless female stand-up comics who joke endlessly about menstrual cramps and numskull boyfriends. (Miller's low so far: talking about a female runner on steroids, she quipped, "What tipped them off was that she forgot to put the toilet seat down...
...toddlers' bodies strapped securely to the seats -- "their legs and feet and the teddy bears in the back of the car." Defense attorneys, who fought to ban the photos, also attempted to control the damage done by the videotape shown Tuesday, which employed a back-seat camera to mimic what the children saw as they died. Says Towle: "There wasn't anything they could do to counter that image...
What are Earth Shoes? They were the first shoes to be marketed with a "negative heel"-meaning their heels were actually lower than their raised toes. This was said to mimic the effect of walking in sand and to make for orthopedically superior posture. In appearance, Earth Shoes pioneered the flanged, boxy look that epitomized much '70s design and can be seen in such later icons of the decade as Bruce Jenner's hair and the A.M.C. Pacer...
...leaders of the religious right are similar to the Alabama ministers Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. eloquently appealed to in his "Letter From Birmingham Jail" over 30 years ago. Instead of calling for racial, social and economic justice, today's leaders mimic their reactionary predecessors. As King wrote: "In the midst of injustices," they "stand on the sideline and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities...