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I don't know, I've never heard of them until now, but they seem a very cheap and shoddy imitation of the Marx brothers.
I don't know any reason why anyone would want to see this or, for that matter, make this truly tasteless, unimaginative, amorphous, poor imitation of a third rate parody.
OK, so the stars are a poor (very poor) imitation of Martin & Lewis.
Much to some people's surprise I found the film's "style" to be a shallow, incompetent imitation of John Woo's ultra kinetic Hong Kong films.
Obviously chosen for the part due to her stage pipes as the original "Annie", McArdle has apparently studied Judy Garland but doesn't attempt an imitation (perhaps unwisely, considering the results we do get); with a trained voice so one-dimensional it is practically soulless, McArdle seems zombie-fied, metallic.
For example, in an early scene when Adamson returns to Britain and is feted at a private ball, instead of using authentic music to nail the period effect and introduce all the elegant and subtle feelings that run beneath the Victorian surface, Balanescu concocts a drone that is an explicit imitation of locusts.
Of course, in learning from one another, countries must always be careful to avoid the “folly of imitation.”
In addition, because imitation, like genetic replication, is not perfect, we accidentally discover other ways of doing the same thing (or even new and better things).
More constructively, the business world uses imitation through the practice of benchmarking, whereby companies share performance information so that they can all learn what is achievable and whom to try to imitate, thus facilitating the identification of “best practices.”
We can help the world make progress by measuring the outcomes we care about, facilitating imitation and tracking performance.
The fact that the country has again become fashionable reflects the confusion in eurozone policymakers’ economic thinking and the folly of imitation across think tanks and international institutions.
Sometimes, Russian imitation produces works of genius.
But there are limits to imitation.
Once Africa is further along in the development process, its economies, like China’s today, will have to shift from imitation to genuine innovation.
Imitation and adaptation will also be critical here, as will sound regulatory and competitive policies.
Their model is the backstabbing drama of Game of Thrones or the dark comedy of House of Cards (the British version, not the long-winded American imitation that has been canceled in the wake of sexual-assault allegations against its star, Kevin Spacey).
Knowhow is transmitted and accumulated slowly, mostly on the job, through a protracted process of imitation and repetition: learning by doing.
Indeed, imitation appears to be a vital key to understanding human development, from behavior and language to empathy and social skills.
Fortunately for human development, healthy children find imitation enormously gratifying.
Imitation is so essential to mastering basic social skills and transferring cultural knowledge that it is likely to have an organic basis in the brain.
As sports fans, musicians, and students of body language know, watching other people's movements and postures may facilitate the viewer's own motor schemes, sometimes resulting in unintended imitation.
Other disorders are associated with defective imitation skills.
This does not mean that one should disregard what can be learned from others; but imitation without adaptation is a recipe for ineffectiveness, if not worse.
China’s move from imitation to innovation has been a matter of national policy in recent years.
The oddest-looking of all contemporary dictators must be North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, whose clean-shaven back and sides are cultivated as a deliberate imitation of his grandfather’s 1930s proletarian hairstyle.
The absurd golden chairs in his pastiche Louis XIV homes are a coarse imitation of aristocratic style.
Surely, imitation will someday impinge on superior US growth performance as well.
The problem was that the imitation was imperfect.
To be sure, the creative destruction that is taking place seems to be affecting developing-economy growth proportionately more than advanced-economy growth, largely because the new technologies are being put to work where they were invented, and developing countries have not yet managed sufficient imitation.
Imitation appears to be a hallmark of tyrants in their exercise of power, so the absence of solidarity among Africa’s journalists and Africa’s peoples has created a dangerous vacuum.
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