mock-up

[Dan Goncharoff]

Right. And what word do they often use in the area of facial
reconstruction, when they refer to the model they build from skeletal
details? One guess...

DanG


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> But it hasn't applied to heads, has it?
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> What she was talking about was a "model" or a "reconstruction" or even a
> "bust."
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> JL
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> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
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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.
> >
> > I think the usage of mock-up is broader than your experience tells you.
> >
> > DanG
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> > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
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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.
> > >
> > > JL
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> > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net>
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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
> > > >
> > > > But the mock-up looks to me like it was influenced by Laurence
> Olivier.
> > > >
> > > > Joel
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