Here, as with many disenfranchised subcultures, clothing functions more like costume, and signals desire and resistance – the hope that if you look like and imitate the figure you would like to become, you will embody their essence".
"He can do clever take-offs, imitate public figures".
Between sharp and furious reports with his feet, Tomasito lingered through smaller motions: curlicue wrist rotations imitating piano figures and quick, accusatory turns and stares.
He had begun early to imitate Disney figures and draw bombers taking off, and joined Drawing & Tracing, a firm offering these services to engineering companies, before undertaking national service (1950-52), where he made models and painted signs in Gill Sans, a typeface designed by Gill.
Hammond, who Michaels dissuaded from pitching original characters so he could focus exclusively on learning to imitate public figures, played Bill Clinton as a sly dog, Al Gore as a stiff bore, John McCain as a seen-it-all war hawk, and Dick Cheney as a robotic crank.
Imitating authority figures like moderators and staff members is a tactic that is commonly used for scams.
Wittgenstein became an influential, austere and much-imitated figure.
Chimps Don't" (Essay, Dec. 13): A researcher suggests that humans imitate rather than figure things out because "maybe imitation is a lot more sophisticated than people thought".
A viewer soon recognizes differences between Aztec art and the relics, often similar in motif and form, of the ancient Olmec (1300-400 B.C)., the Teotihuacán (first six centuries A.D ., and the Toltec (900-1150), and of contemporaneous groups, including the Mixtec and the Tarascan (whose blocky, peppily cartoonish figures were imitated by Keith Haring).
The pressures on him are sometimes glibly, sometimes unpredictably summoned in a mixture of imaginary and real-life characters – though no actor imitates a recognisable figure.
