Word: mimics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touch with live audiences and to try out new material, he displays a range that encompasses Jonathan Winters, Danny Kaye, Steve Martin and Daffy Duck. Though always wearing the same costume-baggy pants, loud shirts, suspenders-he whips in and out of a multitude of comic characterizations. He can mimic the cadences of Shakespeare, many foreign languages, an ark of animals, various machines. His act includes a redneck used-car salesman, a Russian comic, a gay director, a touchingly mad grandpa...
...music reflects the mimic style and adds another artistic dimension to it. "Love in the Pantry," a piece based on the harlequin character from the commedia dell' arte, tells the story of the harlequin's love for a maid. His courting is spurned at first, but he wins her over and she offers him food and drink. The other servants in the house discover him and throw him out bodily, with the offending maid close behind. The two pick themselves up, held themselves to the supplies of the pantry, and live happily ever after. By associating the characters with instruments...
Some of the answers can be found over a beer at the bar around the block from the Charles Playhouse. Field work in any research is essential, but the playhouses of Boston's theater district can do no more than mimic the action going on outside their doors...
There is really nothing Rescue can do about such cases except treat the persons as if something was actually wrong, since they can not take chances. Spike said that there is one guy who knows how to perfectly mimic the symptoms of a heart attack. Between the four groups in the Rescue Co. they end up picking him up every couple of months like a regular customer. What annoys the men is that such people tie up the truck and thus could prevent them from making it to someone who really needs them...
...second side of the album is not nearly as powerful or masterful as the first. "Shooting Star" is Reed's semi-sardonic mimic of David Bowie; "I Wanna Be Black" is at times painful--"I Wanna Be Black and get shot in the face like Martin Luther King"--but illuminating in its surprise, raw and blunt, like the life it sings...