Word: mimicable
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Insects have a long list of ingenious means for fending off predators. They go in for camouflage coloring and offensive odors; in some cases they even mimic other insects that their enemy has no taste for. But few match the imaginative arsenal of the litt1e (quarter-inch long) Stenodus beetle, which has a defense mechanism as sophisticated as tomorrow's anti-missile missile. Attacked by a water strider, a fast, long-legged bug that is its customary nemesis, the Stenodus simply squirts out a charge of fluid detergent from a pair of abdominal glands. The detergent destroys the thin...
Baby Want a Kiss is a sort of ventriloquiz, a chance to guess whose playwriting voice is being thrown onstage. Dramatist James Costigan can mimic the voices of Edward Albee, lonesco and the Theater of the Absurd, Pirandello and even James Thurber, but except for a few sallies of wit and whimsy, he cannot speak for himself...
...farce of provincial English academic life has become a minor classic. In One Fat Englishman, Amis has faced and triumphantly cleared the hazards of translation. Most English novelists cannot manage a single sentence in demotic U.S. speech without setting on edge the big white American teeth. But Amis' mimic's ear is true as tape...
Trafalgar is the first of three kits just put out by London Publisher Jonathan Cape for schoolchildren aged nine to 16. The other Jackdaws (named after the mimic bird) are equally graphic dossiers on Columbus' discovery of America and London's 17th century plague and fire. Soon to be published: more kits on the Magna Carta, the Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the boy Shakespeare (timed to coincide with the bard's 400th anniversary...
Perhaps the most weighty assertion in the articles is that the capes are emblems of summer travels, to such countries as Mexico, England, Austria, Peru, and Sweden. "Non-travelers descend on masse on their favorite Harvard Square shops to mimic their globetrotting classmates," the story adds...