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Word: aped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditionally hates kissin' and gets his kicks by digging spurs into horseflesh seems equally ill-adapted to the times. The exquisitely contemporary hero is girl-happy, gadget-minded James Bond, whose legend has already tempted a host of imitators to bland larceny. Now five new spy spoofs reverently ape Bond, with more a-making to catch the rich financial fallout from Goldfinger and Thunderball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Spies Who Came into the Fold | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...Rock is not designed to sustain human life; it is a "chunk of strategic geology." It has escaped Axis capture only because-the bitter story goes-an American insurance company did not want its corporate symbol compromised. The Rock's only happy denizens are the Barbary apes-sexually emancipated pensioners who seem to be contemptuously aware of the superstition that the British will never leave the Rock until the death of the last ape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Virgil on the Rock | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...pounding each other in their Bakelite-encased genitalia, while a third stands by yelling "Kill!" And this edifying activity presided over by a fourth who has the effrontery to keep the Bible in his office. Darwin must have been wrong. Man is not an improved strain of ape; when the Harold Johnsons of this world auspiciously fade away, man might perhaps rise to the level of the ape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 24, 1965 | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

...Whitman's climactic hand-to-hand combat with the baboons' snarling leader. Though ferociously exciting in itself, this bout between man and beast in the wilderness only points up the failings of a movie that hasn't yet gone primitive when it suddenly goes ape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Six for Survival | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...takes a tougher view: "Leonard doesn't think. That's why he's successful. He's like those gangsters he used to play. What he likes in his gut the public likes in their guts-or else. He has the primitive instincts of a clever ape. On television, that's worth more than a crystal ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Punk Who Made Good | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

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