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...female fireflies of the genus Photuris. Like other fireflies, these nocturnal, winged beetles send out short, rhythmic flashes of light as part of a special signal system that attracts males of the same species. The female Photuris practices a deadly variation of this ritual. It modifies its signal to mimic the flash pattern of different species of fireflies and thus lures unsuspecting males. Once they are in reach, the female devours them...
...flashlight, Lloyd learned to imitate the signals of various species. He soon discovered that when he gave the mating flash of a male Photinus, a female Photuris sometimes responded. When Lloyd switched signals, flashing the mating pattern of a different male species, the versatile female Photuris often began to mimic the proper response for the female of that species. In fact, a female can mimic the signals of at least three different species...
...Macdonald lies in the way he wraps up a victim after he has wobbled him. (1), (2), (3), (a), (b), (c)-he smothers his foe with Q.E.D. exercises in logic and item upon item of proof. As he closes in for the kill, Macdonald may mimic the cries of the wounded. He offers spot-on parodies of Norman Mailer, Wolfe and circa 1938 TIME-"celebrated last month by potent Newsmagazine TIME, its fifteenth birthday." If the subject is still twitching, he finishes him off with a footnote...
Difficult Challenge. The story's rather inconsistent mysticism stumbles into sentimentality once or twice, but Donen makes even that seductive. He has made no attempt to mimic Saint-Exupéry's eloquent line drawings. Instead, he has some of them reproduced when the pilot does sketches on a note pad for the Little Prince. It is an act of friendly homage that devotees of the book will like as much as Donen's fidelity to the fragile spirit of the original. He has in fact pulled off a rather difficult challenge. The visual style...
...rock group, specializing in Beatle sounds, provides the music. They sing with an English accent--the same saucy intonation as the four gods they mimic. Their lead singer even talks like Paul. Funny thing--the accent; after three days of the Beatle convention, half the people have developed a pidgin Cockney...