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...this young rock so successful is the shared avoidance of soul, a substitution of fantasy for flesh. The best song on the Dirty Dancing records is a piece of elaborate contemporary pop, Eric Carmen's Hungry Eyes, that recaptures the high, wide feeling of '60s music without trying to mimic it. It was hard anyway, even growing up with rock 'n' roll, to define what it was. All anyone ever really knew was that rock was the real thing, a way for a lot of kids to find a balance, share a feeling, even, sometimes, stay ahead and stay alive...
...Wampler, 39, a California physician, took his inspiration from pumps he saw in deep wells ten years ago in Egypt. The pump's spinning motion and the resulting continuous flow of blood from the heart represent a departure from the natural pulsating action that most other devices try to mimic. Some researchers at first feared that the whirling blades would destroy blood cells and that the body would be unable to tolerate the nonpulsating blood flow. So far, the problem has not materialized. Another potential drawback: small as the pump is, it may be too large to use in women...
...fleet converted to nuclear power, the Bonefish remained as one of the last four U.S. diesel-electric subs. But its role as a mimic was crucial: the Soviets still have in service about 150 diesel-electrics, half of their sub fleet...
...Bonefish and its two sister ships, the Barbel and Blueback, are among the last of the Navy's diesel-electric submarines and are used principally to mimic Soviet submarines in training exercises. The Soviets still operate about 100 diesel-electric boats...
Those people looking for a break from the electron-based spittle that dribbles from your tube should forgo Big Time, where even the stage is designed to mimic the glowing box. Subtitled "Scenes from a Service Economy," this recent play by Keith Reddin rarely has anything to offer that isn't of McQuality. Even though a pleasantly short production of 75 minutes--with commercial breaks that's a 90 minute TV special--Big Time rapidly becomes tiresome and repititious...