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...artists. Yet his images in the 1960s, taken from comic strips and ads-"I know how you must feel, Brad!" whispers the enormous girl's mouth to its exclusively art-world audience-were once rebuked for their dumbness, their lack of "real" art content. To mimic the processes of commercial art, to take a common image and replicate it on canvas, much larger, with hard-edged line and stenciled arrays of Ben Day dots in primary colors for shading: Could this be art? Is the Pope Catholic...
...Saudi Arabia, which produces 10.3 million bbl. of crude oil daily, or 40% of all the output of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is intentionally forcing them lower. As longtime champions of steady, but moderate, rises in the price of oil, the Saudis have refused to mimic price hawks like Libya, Iran and Iraq. Instead, the Saudis for the past nine months have been pumping nearly 2 million bbl. per day above their self-imposed limit of 8.5 million bbl. daily in order to create an oil surplus and drive prices down...
...American patients, none could have been declared brain dead by the criteria set up in British or American codes. Doctors must first exclude certain conditions such as drug overdoses, which may mimic death but are reversible. Indeed, there is some confusion over the American cases cited. Neurologist Fred Plum of New York Hospital, who was interviewed for the program, stresses that the patient he discussed was never officially declared brain dead...
Lunch Hour might have been better served by a different star. Gilda Radner is referred to as a waif, and tries to mimic scatterbrained vulnerability; but it does not wash. She radiates tensile strength. If she were crossing the Arctic wastes and her Huskies died, she could and would tow the dog sled to the Pole. That invincible force happens to be wrong for this play...
...strangers or pursued by his own demons, he genuinely cared about pleasing his friends and loved ones. He entertained and consoled, advised and gently scolded. His frequent travels took him great distances from those whose company he enjoyed, so he used the mails to talk to them, to mimic "conversation as I love it, with anecdote occurring spontaneously and aptly, jokes growing and taking shape, fantasy." This collective performance was one of his most dazzling...