Who was in profile three drinks later, laughing at Josh's high-pitched imitation of their boss, petty tyrant of the production company where they edited film.
So while Mr. Hanks heaped praise on Ms. Hunter, he also laced his podium time with teasing ad-libs and did a clipped, weirdly high-pitched imitation of Ms. Hunter's husband, the Polish cinematographer Janusz Kaminski.
Scarborough then did a high-pitched imitation of her.
"'I don't wanna be burned!'" Grable said in a high-pitched imitation of her mother.
His mockery of Mr. Leno has been savage — including high-pitched imitations of his rival's voice — but he hasn't let his allegiance to Mr. O'Brien totally cloud his own discontents.
Within the networks, coherence varied as a function of imitation accuracy, F 1, 12) = 4.8, p = .049, showing larger coherence for subjects with higher imitation accuracy.
With characters who are beyond hackneyed, "Heartbreak Hospital," which opens today in Manhattan, unfolds as a shrill high school imitation of "Nurse Betty," a movie that created refined screwball comedy out of the confusion between reality and television suds.
And it's why there are figures dressed in tunics and togas, or in long dresses with hair piled up high in imitation of Flavian high fashion, hanging out next to the Great Roman Bath itself, chatting or bantering to the tourists, about a million of whom visit each year.
The general scepticism of proponents of cultural attraction towards the idea that high fidelity imitation is the unique, or even the main, support for cultural evolution is a useful counterbalance to a naïve view of humans as perfect and indiscriminate copy-machines, and that this is enough to explain cultural stability.
We are used to thinking that anyone who "copies" a celebrity is sad and inauthentic, but in its highest form, imitation founded on admiration is integral to a good life.
