Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tall, he can be extremely funny, a very good mimic, passionate...can have a hot temper," Geidt says. "He's a very strong mixture of many things...
...says. "Except in the one domain of trust." Nowhere does that show more than in her tortured relationship with the media. In the rare instances when she allows reporters on her plane or dines with them on the road, Hillary is charming and revealing. She is a wicked mimic, her repertoire ranging from witty stories of wandering the White House (she and Bill still haven't seen every room) to the migration patterns of screwworms. But the First Lady enforces an almost inviolable rule that these very human encounters are to be off the record. For this article...
While the central debate in the story concerns the farmland of the title, the same questions of ownership and management apply to film adaptations themselves. Is the job of the filmmakers to mimic the source material as nearly as possible, or do they have the right to "remodel" the property? As Hamlet might have asked had he been a screenwriter, the question is whether to be or not to be "like the book...
...church ceremony at one university-even if it is Harvard-is more like a bone thrown to the gay and lesbian community than it is a burgeoning national commitment to lesbian and gay issues. Marriage is a way for lesbians and gay men to fit in, to mimic the norm. Same-sex marriage is, in fact, quite conservative; there is no radical departure from social mores, just an attempt to integrate those previously excluded into a culture that is unchanged...
...doting grandchild in Del Toro's fine 1992 Cronos. The same themes and similar characters show up here; the director is apparently buggy for bugs and for strange, trusting children. For its first hour--up to and including that airborne kidnapping of our heroine--Mimic is a suavely creepy essay in entomophobia. Then the film gets a severe case of the stupes. The creatures keep Susan alive (inexplicable unless she is meant to be mated with the king bug), and they stop evolving into humans (so we never, alas, see the final stage of a really uggy bug-man). Horror...