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...technological skills, Japanese science still suffers from a copycat syndrome. The Japanese often feel it is better to mimic or borrow than originate. Says Electrical Engineer Michiyuki Uenohara, director of Nippon Electric's research labs: "The label of imitator is valid-Japanese research is derivative...
...intelligence. Over the past 25 years, the AI laboratories of such institutions as M.I.T., Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon and Scotland's University of Edinburgh have introduced word processing, video games, time sharing, robot control and advanced missile-guidance systems. Lately, AI research has concentrated on building systems that can mimic the brain work of skilled experts in such fields as oil exploration, battlefield command and computer design itself. Now Japan has made it a national goal to take its place within ten years among the world leaders in the emerging knowledge industry. "We no longer need chase the more developed...
...killed by his wife Christine in collusion with her lover. Daughter Vinnie and son Orin work their revenge. Like the House of Atreus, three generations of Mannons are cursed. O'Neill's insistence on parallels is at times heavy handed, though. The main characters' names, for instance, mimic too closely their Greek counterparts. Ezra Mannon for Agammemnon, Christine for Clytemnestra, and Orin for Orestes are unnecessary hints to the audience. The plot and title would alone provide the key to this latter-day tragedy...
...THIS SEEMS short shrift for a major novel by one of America's foremost writers, well, it is. The book: as you might have guessed by now, is painfully bad. The writing tries to mimic the Biblical cadence which translators often give to old, mythic stories and hence seems gimmicky, especially with Mailer's consuming interest in sex and scatology (an important episode in the book comes when Menenhetet steals some of the Pharaoh's feces, I swear). But even more annoying than the problems in execution, the concerns of the book, and its vacillation between comic book heroism...
...definition, people addicted to cocaine are out of control. They are probably on or over the edge of ruin. So it is a mean, symmetrical irony that cocaine's effect is to mimic will and emotional focus, permitting the user to feel he is blessed with precisely the virtues he lacks. Explains Illinois' Kirkpatrick: "The cocaine high is the way you would feel if you did something with your life. You think, 'For the first time in a long time, I've really got myself together...