Word: mimicing
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...brothers of Lennon and McCartney made pilgrimages to the Cavern, to Brian Epstein's record store, to the holy homes of the Fab Four. Teenagers from Connecticut assumed the adenoidal lilt of the Mersey accent and recited lines from A Hard Day's Night with the fervor of mimic acolytes. It was not only the Beatles' music that inspired this love for all things Liverpudlian. It was the discovery of an English city -- working class and influenced by Irish and American adventurers -- that had seen it all and was not easily impressed. A fond parodic cynicism rode the crest...
...processing computers that are nearly as ambitious, and a pair of start-up companies, Encore and Sequent, are finding a ready market for more modest parallel machines. Meanwhile, research teams across the U.S. are experimenting with even more radical designs. Among them: AT&T Bell Laboratories computer circuits that mimic the action of the billions of neurons in the human brain. "It's a time for experimentation," says Illinois' Smarr. "There are 1,000 flowers blooming...
...Able to scan words on a printed page and then read them aloud in an artificial voice, the device has been hailed as the most significant aid for the blind since the invention of Braille. In 1983 he introduced the Kurzweil 250, a computer-driven musical synthesizer that can mimic the sounds of instruments and voices. Even more sophisticated than Robert Moog's famous synthesizer, which was developed in the 1960s, the 250 can sound like a symphony orchestra one minute and a heavy-metal band the next. It has become a favorite of pop stars, including Stevie Wonder, Herbie...
...tempo of encounters, wages war against spontaneity. His every move is being judged by a remorselessly bitchy critic (Charlotte Moore) from a newspaper resembling the New York Times. Her very presence indicates that Gurney has metaphors in mind. Other hints include references to Oscar Wilde, whose epigrams the characters mimic, and a mounted portrait of Hawthorne, master of allegory...
...such superstar rockers as Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger and Bruce Springsteen. As part of her touring nightclub act, Welch does a medley of tunes that span three musical gen- erations, from Heartbreak Hotel to Satisfaction to Born in the U.S.A. Says Welch: "I've always been a kind of mimic. I'm just doing now what I've done in the privacy of my own home. I really make a complete fool of myself." She claims not to have any favorites but says Springsteen "is the hardest to do. He's so masculine." Fans of the feminine side of Welch...