Word: mimic
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...show has had its good moments. Van Dyke is a fine mimic and an even finer slapsticker. He is 37, but "I was born 30 years too late," he saysand indeed he does at times recall the Harold Lloyds and Stan Laurels that he much admires. Playing a jury foreman, he jumped out of the jury box to pick up the voluptuous defendant's handkerchief, reeled around awkwardly before the court and fell back into the jury box. It was one moment that a casual viewer could appreciate. Last week came another one, as he told his little...
...Deshong has designed a series of costumes that cleverly mimic a variety of human organs...
Waring is not the work of a young man trying to find his way: Powell is already the detached, well-informed, amused observer, a masterful mimic and the most shameless juggler of coincidence since Dickens...
...DeShong has designed a series of costumes that cleverly mimic a variety of human organs...
Enriched by such experimentation, the true spirit of jazz still belongs to its players, not to composers who study the form at the distance of a good conservatory. Leonard Bernstein has captured the sound of its blue notes-the appoggiatura tones that mimic the human voice in lament-and others have used its reiterated play-song melodies. But even among jazzmen, the only composer who has consistently written good jazz for orchestral players without merely repeating George Gershwin is Duke Ellington, and Ellington's "classical jazz" swings only because it is safe, sensual music. "We're going...