Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wartime. The kind of discipline that war necessitates is alien to democratic principles. The challenge is to keep reasonable efforts to win a war from mushrooming into repression. The Gulf War cannot become an excuse to prostitute American democracy. If the only way we can defeat Iraq is to mimic its form of government, the war is not worth fighting...
Perhaps Bradlee's greatest innovation was the Post's Style section, which led papers around the U.S. to drop their dowdy women's sections and mimic the biting profiles and flashy features by Sally Quinn, now Bradlee's wife. But the section that was once all snap and vinegar has gone flat under Downie. A profile of Senate majority leader George Mitchell, one of the Democratic Party's harshest critics of President Bush, devoted only a sparse paragraph to his romance with Janet Mullins, a senior Bush Administration official. Laments a Post reporter: "The old Style would have published...
...small circle of friends to Boston for the symphony, with a stop at Goodspeed's, a rare print-and-book shop in the city. There he purchased the 1850s print of the Merrimack River and Concord that hangs above the stereo in his living room. He is an accomplished mimic, doing a wicked imitation of Meldrim Thomson Jr., the archconservative former Governor who named him attorney general...
Other manufacturers have rushed to create fat substitutes, such as olestra and Simplesse. These compounds, which have not yet received Food and Drug Administration approval, mimic the texture of fats but have considerably fewer or no calories. Liebman, whose group believes olestra is potentially cancer promoting, applauds Hostess and Entenmann's for being able to reduce fat content and preserve taste without resorting to a fat substitute...
Psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg writes of the psychopath who can perfectly mimic a human personality without having one: "They obtain very little enjoyment from life other than from the tributes they receive from others or from their own grandiose fantasies, and they feel restless and bored when external glitter wears off and no new sources feed their self-regard." Stuart had tired of selling minks and perhaps of his wife, who was about to realize her own dreams of a family, dreams he did not share. As stupefying as it seems, Stuart apparently carried out his monstrous deed only to remake...