Word: mimics
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...already generating hot air. Last week, Japan considered filing a formal protest after French officials - including President Jacques Chirac - indicated that the French site at Cadarache, 65 km north of Marseilles, had all but bagged the €10 billion deal to host ITER, which will try to mimic the sun's power by using 100 million-degree Celsius heat to create nuclear fusion. The technology is unproven on this scale, but during a nationally televised interview Chirac declared that " France is on the verge of getting ITER" over the rival site of Rokkasho-Mura in northern Japan. Then...
...form of a courtier's hat, rising like an inverted keel some two feet above the head and decorated in a tortoiseshell pattern of black and honey-colored lacquer. Others seem not to be there--a helmet, for instance, covered with a wig of animal hair to mimic a young man's coiffure, thus fooling an enemy into thinking the samurai is helmetless...
...unexpected highlight came when some members of the CCDT put together an impromptu competition challenging audience members to mimic the moves of a CCDT dancer. The house exploded into hoots and cheers when freshman Durrell B. Robinson ’08 not only copied his dancer’s booty-shaking to perfection, but threw in some moves...
...onstage before, in plays like The Beauty Queen of Leenane. But with The Pillowman, he almost seems to have invented a new genre of horror theater. In this macabre fable with echoes of Kafka and Pinter, a man (Billy Crudup) is interrogated for a string of child murders that mimic the gruesome short stories he has written. Somehow, in the transfer to Broadway from London's National Theatre, a lot of unwelcome laughs have been allowed to sneak in. They're only a distraction from a dark, intense and truly shocking meditation on cruelty in all its forms...
...before you begin writing your letters to the editor, at least hear me out. I’m not advocating that we mimic Inter Milan’s fans right down to the last flare. Not by a long shot. I’m not asking that we import the hooliganism that would put players at risk...