mock-up

[Jonathan Lighter]

But it hasn't applied to heads, has it?

What she was talking about was a "model" or a "reconstruction" or even a
"bust."

JL

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Mock-ups are used by architects to show buildings that don't exist *yet*,
> and by archeologists to show buildings that don't exist *now*, but used to
> exist.
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> I think the usage of mock-up is broader than your experience tells you.
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> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > Mock-ups, in my experience, are (usually smaller and non-functioning, or
> > not fully functional) complete models of machines like airplanes that
> don't
> > exist *yet.* An airplane mock-up, for example, is (or used to be) useful
> > for wind-tunnel tests.
> >
> > The novelty with Tricky Dick is that he was a person, not a thing; he
> *did*
> > exist once; and the model is only of his head, not the whole person.
> >
> > So that's strike three in the  inappropriateness game.
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> > JL
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> > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > > At 2/5/2013 07:35 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > > >"A physical representation or reconstruction (of a human head)."
> > > >
> > > >That's what CNN's Christine Romans calls the plastic bust of Richard
> III
> > > >based upon his newly unearthed skull.
> > >
> > > I see the Richard III Society is trying to reconstruct him too.  He's
> > > younger-looking, less malevolent, and more smiley than the
> > > run-of-the-mill portraits.
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/now-we-can-see-his-face-the-next-step-of-the-richard-iii-discovery-story-8480958.html
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> > > But the mock-up looks to me like it was influenced by Laurence Olivier.
> > >
> > > Joel
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