Word: mimic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great horror moment, like this one in Guillermo Del Toro's Mimic, works as both pulp and poetry. It gets scare shivers tickling the lay audience while connoisseurs nod sagely at the canonical resonance; think of the creature as Dracula spreading its capelike wings and Sorvino as both a Frankenstein whose experiment went bad and a Fay Wray to the insect world's King Kong. The roach and its sibs are Susan's mutant creations; they have the gift of mimicking other species. If Susan's commando crew doesn't Off the bugs quick, New York could become a slightly...
GIVE ME A SMILE Depressed mothers seem to give birth to babies with similar symptoms--elevated levels of stress hormones, few facial expressions and trouble sleeping. Their brain waves too mimic those of their depressed moms...
...aged politicians too timid for body piercing. Bill Clinton has raised these I'm-so-sorry sermonettes to an art form. The survivors of the Tuskegee, Ala., syphilis experiments and the victims of 1950s radiation research have all been awarded the presidential seal of sorrow. Tony Blair, an adroit mimic, apologized for the Irish potato famine before he even got around to hearing the latest Di-and-Fergie gossip from the Queen...
Marv, you are the best broadcaster out there, bar none (and doubly bar Walton). When we mimic your deliberate, brilliantly understated announcing style, we do so with nothing less than total admiration...
...central is dopamine's role in this familiar morality play? Scientists are still trying to sort that out. It is no accident, they say, that people are attracted to drugs. The major drugs of abuse, whether depressants like heroin or stimulants like cocaine, mimic the structure of neurotransmitters, the most mind-bending chemicals nature has ever concocted. Neurotransmitters underlie every thought and emotion, memory and learning; they carry the signals between all the nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain. Among some 50 neurotransmitters discovered to date, a good half a dozen, including dopamine, are known to play a role...