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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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mime jester, buffoon; farcical drama of the Greeks and Romans. XVII. — L.
mīmus — Gr.
mîmos imitator, actor.
Hence vb. XVII. So
mimeograph stencil device. XIX. irreg. f. Gr.
mīméomai I imitate.
mimetic pert. to imitation or mimicry. XVII. — Gr.
mīmētikós.
mimic pert. to a mime or buffoon; imitative; sb. burlesque performer; imitator XVI. — L.
mīmicus — Gr.
mīmikós. Hence
mimic vb.,
mimicry XVII.
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Mime - Wordless theatre flounders in country.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 2/20/2007; 700+ words
; Mime - Wordless theatre flounders in country New...his side-splitting comedy and brilliant mime. The wordless form of theatre, in which...15 years back, full-fledged tours and mime acting festivals were regularly organised...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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Mime master eloquently states his case
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 6/18/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-18-2006 Mime master eloquently states his case JIM BECKERMAN...The hardest part about being a Japanese mime in America? Finding someone to translate...such a joke. After all, the brand of mime practiced by Yass Hakoshima derives from...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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MIME OFFERS HALLOWEEN ALTERNATIVE.(RELIGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/11/2003; 700+ words
; Byline: ABBEY KOUTNIK I'm a mime. Words don't come easily for me. Sometimes...communicate. That is, I've been studying mime. The body, as the instrument, has to...introduction 33 years ago to the art of mime by Tony Montanaro, I have spent one or...
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 "Blade (Toledo, OH)")
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Mime leaves body of work for a new generation.
Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH); 9/28/2007; 700+ words
; ...Smith Sep. 28--The death of master mime Marcel Marceau on Saturday left me speechless...by a secret bond. See, I was a teenage mime. It's not an art form that gets a lot...in Canton. The drama teacher started a mime club, and the next thing I knew, I was...
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 "Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)")
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Mime over matter; Trent Arterberry brings `The Bigg Show' to Worcester's First Night.(LIVING)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 12/21/2007; 700+ words
; ...few First Night Worcester celebrations, mime artist Trent Arterberry could regularly...maker with that remark. That said, the mime does intend to have a good time, saying...amuse children and adults. After all, a mime is a mime. "I'm probably more self...
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 "Portland Press Herald (Maine)")
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mime + dance = new art form ; Karen Montanaro receives a $13,000 fellowship honoring her work, described as 'painterly, narrative and lyrical.'
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 10/11/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Portland Press Herald (Maine) 10-11-2007 mime + dance = new art form ; Karen Montanaro...Lakes Karen Montanaro thought she knew mime - and she hated it. Then Montanaro, a...fell in love with a different kind of mime, taught by her husband, Tony Montanaro...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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MIME'S THE WORD THIS VERY OLD, VERY PHYSICAL ART FORM IS STILL EVOLVING.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 5/26/1998; ; 700+ words
; Rick Davidson is a mime. Ask him about it, and he can't shut...year-old performer talks about Seattle Mime Theatre, the company he co-founded in...whole hour. ``We've taken the idea of mime and pushed back the definition,'' he...
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Traditional Mime art form witnessing revival in Imphal
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 6/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...the restoration of many dying art forms like Mime, an art of silent gestures, commonly known...group in Manipur is trying to put the genre of mime back in the mainstream of theatre arts. The Kanglei Mime Theatre Repertoire based in Imphal, the only...
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A beautiful mime/ Dan Kamin works to build appreciation for ancient art form
Newspaper article from: The Gazette; 1/13/2002; ; 700+ words
; Dan Kamin is a mime. And, yes, he knows what you think of...the course of my career I've watched mime go from something that nobody had ever...Kamin, 55, who has been a professional mime since 1970. The problem, says Kamin...
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 "AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ)")
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Theatrical Mime: Couple teaching, performing art form.
Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ); 9/29/2006; 700+ words
; ...could talk for hours about their theatrical mime company. An irony that is not lost on...they were like, 'We're nuts to bring a mime on to the radio,' " said Wamer, 52...made great strides with their Theatrical Mime Theatre here in Tucson. Since starting...
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Mime
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Mime, in Ancient Rome a spoken form of popular, farcical drama...licence even went so far as to sanction the appearance of mime-actresses naked on stage. The influence of mime on the development of Latin comedy must have been considerable...
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Mime/Smime
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce
MIME/SMIME In its most primitive, text-only form...marketers. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) allow these many different kinds of files to be exchanged online. MIME is an extension of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol...
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Mime in American Theatre
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Mime in American Theatre. Mime has never played an important role in the mainstream of American theatre, and virtually all the successful mime presentations on Broadway or in other major theatrical centers have...
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mime
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
mime / mīm / • n. 1. the theatrical...another action or an idea or feeling: he performed a brief mime of someone fencing. ∎ a practitioner of mime or a performer in a mime. 2. (in ancient Greece and...
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Mime, Modern
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Mime, Modern, of which the outstanding exponent...Marceau , has nothing in common with the Roman mime (above), and approximates far more closely...of dumb-show call their work ‘mime’ to differentiate it from the popular...
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