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These days, however, it is Wynn's personality that is on trial. Many people know Wynn as a witty storyteller who can mimic anyone's accent and who rewards his employees with gifts (he once bought luxury cars for 377 casino supervisors in Atlantic City). But a lawsuit by the former head of Wynn's Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas, Dennis Gomes, has laid out what colleagues and even some relatives of Wynn's have said about him privately for years: he has a tendency to explode at the people around him. There are many offenses Gomes lists...
Giorgione appeals more to modern taste because his imagery was more mysterious and poetic, and the idea that painting should mimic the effects of lyric or pastoral poetry, ut pictura poesis, was a favorite 16th century dictum. There is a word for it, Giorgionesque, an allusive quality that comes through even in conventional subjects, such as the exquisite portrait of a young knight surrounded by the gleaming black weapons of his vocation, a dense still life with religious overtones (the handle and pommel of the sword are also a cross), the bony silence of the knight's face contrasting with...
...speech peppered with jokes and personal anecdotes, Apple said the nation's top newspapers, network news shows and newsweeklies have come to mimic the values of the "lesser breed" of tabloids and television talk shows...
...problem, he says, lies in the fact that after extended use, decongestants actually create diseases of their own which mimic the symptoms of the allergy they were meant to relieve, leaving the allergy sufferer with double trouble...
Another area where computerized worlds seem to mimic the real one is economics. J. Doyne Farmer, a physicist formerly at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been struck by how the mathematics of complexity seems to explain the workings of the stock market, which, like a biological system, involves constant adaptation to change by individual participants. After playing with computer models, Farmer decided it was time for a reality test of the theory. He and several partners founded Prediction Co., an Albuquerque, New Mexico, investment firm that uses math to try to beat the financial markets. Says Farmer...