Word: mimics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sergeant Bilko's platoon. It includes a 300-lb. spring maker, a Welsh barrister, a teacher from the Scottish highlands and an insurance manager from one of London's blue-blood suburbs. Their leader is an engaging aristocrat, Jeremy Thorpe, 44, an amateur violinist and accomplished mimic whose ancestors were serving in Parliament in the 14th century. Now the band has been joined by David Austick, a bald lay preacher and bookseller, and Clement Freud, an antic journalist and television personality who, besides being Sigmund's grandson, is best known to the British electorate for his baleful...
Then came Portnoy's Complaint, the public flowering of the Henny Youngman Roth, the brilliant cocktail-party mimic, hilarious storyteller and improviser of ingenious bits. His university degrees were set aside for the lessons learned on Newark's front stoops, where wisecracks and putdowns were the comic antitoxins against WASP sting and the guilt that could result from calling chicken soup consomm...
What with ball scenes and soirées, there are several abortive hints that Irene intended to mimic My Fair Lady, but for that one needs Shaw as well as scenery. One also needs the sly romantic sorcery of champagne and Irene is drunk on Ovaltine...
...play is full of these eery vignettes: they mimic and echo the narrative, so that atmosphere becomes an organic force of its own. At times, as in the second of two graphic rape scenes, the incidents do not even exist in the plot, but are fantasy projections in the minds of the characters. This sort of thing often evolved naturally and novelly when director Ed Zwick and the actors tried them out. The rape scene has never been in the play before, and shaping and re-shaping--as in making use of the Loeb's opulent facilities to stage this...
...influential The American Language. "The Negro dialect as we know it today seems to have been formulated by the songwriters for the minstrel shows." Mencken, in his typically culturally-biased manner, simply assumed that blacks were incapable of constructing their own language, and were only able to mimic what they heard in traveling sideshows. But Mencken's theory is generous in comparison with the racist assertions of some of his white colleagues. One school of thought holds, for example, that blacks only speak Black English in front of whites to confuse them, while another theory explains that the thick lips...