Word: mimics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retailers said pressures to stay open all Sundays simply to mimic other shops may not be cost-effective...
There is nothing noteworthy about this band's sound except that they are following the pack of clones who imitate superbands like U2, Nirvana and the Cranberries. Lead singer Jo Lloyd manages to merely mimic Dolores O'Riordan's vocal stylings from "Zombie," that frantic, slightly nasal guttural pitch. Backed by random noise fillers consisting of drums and guitar, each song is a blur of blah and blech. Forgettable lyrics of the usual uber-topic, love, in all its iterations nicely round out this disappointing disc. With the rise of this new crop of artificially-flavored pop bands, the music...
...theory, this would allow the photographs themselves to suffuse the room with patches of brightness. While a ghostly luminescence does seem to be emitted by some of the prints, supplemental track lighting glances off the glass of the smaller works, casting angular reflections on the hardwood floor that mimic the exhibit's strict geometrical lines...
CALLING ALL CHOCOHOLICS You can get over it. For years, researchers have suspected that a hankering for Hershey's comes from the desire--especially among women--for certain chemicals found in chocolate, some even said to mimic the brain chemistry of a person in love. Not so, finds a new study. It turns out that U.S. women lust for chocolate twice as much as Spanish women do, suggesting that craving chocolate is a learned behavior--and can be unlearned...
...Stone's aptly named Illusion Entertainment Group but also of Michael Davies, who became an entertainment executive at ABC in January. A native Brit, Davies loves the Fox network's hit reality specials, such as When Animals Attack and World's Scariest Police Chases. He came to ABC to mimic and improve on them. "If Fox did When Animals Attack," he told Electronic Media magazine earlier this year, "I want to do Why Animals Attack...