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...bench. Judge Hand dropped his austerity as casually as he doffed his judicial robes. He was a noted mimic and singer who delighted Justice Holmes with ribald sea chanteys ("I fear he thinks I am a mere vaudevillian") and vigorously played cowboys and Indians with his children and grandchildren after court had adjourned...
...documentary movies, embodies the type with remarkable vigor and exact ness. Finney's strongest asset as an actor is his presence, an inward weight that holds the center of every scene, as the heaviest fish holds the bottom of a net. But he is also a grandly gifted mimic. His dullard eye and dirgelike stroke, as he rides his bike to work, present an ex erience as old as that of the fellah on the water wheel - the quiet desperation of the man who works for someone else. Best of all, he has the rare intensity of talent that...
...with meaning." For another, three disparate things-the man, the rug, the doorknob-have been fused with one of the cosmic forces. They have become, in MacLeish's view, links in the underlying order at the heart of the universe, which men instinctively feel, and consciously or unconsciously mimic, in poetry and the other arts. This is a drastic oversimplification of the niceties of poetic craft, structure and sensibility with which Poetry and Experience is concerned, but it is a guideline to Poet MacLeish's central theme: that poetry is a passionate, perpetual re-introduction to the self...
...stand as Jack Kennedy marched out to take his big bow last week was his sister Pat Lawford. And a proper distance behind her was her husband, Hollywood Star Peter Lawford (Never So Few, TV's Thin Man). For British-born "Pee-tah," as his friend, Mimic Sammy Davis Jr., calls him, such small-type billing on any other occasion might well be cause for foot-stomping temperament, but it must have comforted him to know that he was only the advance man for a new phalanx of Hollywood stars to whom Jack Kennedy's victory was more...
...something another person has made. In a land where a man can be killed by a glass of water thrown in his face (it freezes in flight), and where the main supply of food comes from the hunt, the Eskimo has developed an uncanny sense of observation. He can mimic a stranger on sight, often fools seals by flapping his arms like flippers until he is near enough to throw a harpoon. In his art, he can catch the look of the injured bear, the tension of the hunter standing over a seal hole, the heft and hunch...