Word: mimic
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...style was more like that of the younger Kennedys. He still had the monotonously rhythmic Massachusetts voice, nervous, clipped phrasing. Like everyone on the podium, he seemed to be staring out at a great imaginary photo-blowup of one of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's shy smiles, carnestly trying to mimic...
MARCEL MARCEAU is a stylish musician of motion, an exciting architect of space, an eloquent poet of silence. He is the panto mimic accountant of the laughably saddening costs of being human, with the knowledge that no matter how funny the pratfall, the heart is where the hurt...
...corner of an apartment house, a shotgun blast brings dozens of men tumbling out of all the doors and windows, each dragging his trousers behind him. The art of Laurel and Hardy has already enchanted millions, from Marshal Tito (who owns a library of their films) to Master Mimic Marcel Marceau. Laughing 20's should bring new converts into the folderol...
...sentimental strumpet in I Am a Camera, a queen in Victoria Regina, a madwoman as Hamlet's Ophelia. Her secret is not true versatility-there is never any question that behind the makeup it is Julie Harris. Audiences flock to her performances precisely because she can mimic no one but herself; she simply takes on each challenging role and wraps it around her like soft mink. Judging from the length of the line at Skyscraper's box office, the fit this time is fine...
Even before that, she was spotted as a talented hoyden and mimic in Second City revues, where she did a host of impressions in a night. If Julie has always seemed all of a piece, Barbara appears as a battalion of selves. Nearly everyone who knows her knows three or four Barbaras-the constant clown, the achingly insecure truth seeker, the girl who's always on, the girl who is lost without a mask...