Word: aped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biography, such as the little matter of size, or, in science-speak, "sexual dimorphism." If men and women evolved so differently, then why aren't men a whole lot bigger than they are? In fact, humans display a smaller size disparity between the sexes than do many of our ape cousins--suggesting (though not proving) that early men and women sometimes had overlapping job descriptions, like having to drive off the leopards. And speaking of Paleolithic predators, wouldn't it be at least unwise for the guys to go off hunting, leaving the supposedly weak and dependent women and children...
...researchers, this suggested that the chimp virus had mutated and crossed over to humans on at least three separate occasions, each time finding man a more congenial host than ape. The momentous leaps, Hahn speculates, could have occurred when hunters came in contact with infected blood while butchering chimps for food, a common practice in Africa. As it happens, the first documented case of AIDS goes back to 1959, when a man living in Kinshasa, just across the Congo River from Gabon, home of Marilyn's kin, died of the disease...
When Willis O'Brien, the pioneering special-effects genius, went back to his drawing board in the 1940s, he gave Mighty Joe Young two things King Kong, his first and greatest ape, lacked: a user-friendly name and a lady friend who didn't burst into screams every time she caught sight of him. The result didn't quite match King Kong, arguably the movies' most intense portrayal of unrequited love, but it remains a sweet memory, now happily recalled by director Ron Underwood's genial remake...
...honors as narrator for the recent documentary "Behind the Planet of the Apes." The job called for an open embrace of the sci-fi/camp classics that Charlton Heston had clearly sidestepped, just as he did by bowing out of the series after just a teaser role in the first sequel. McDowall loved every minute of it; you could see it in his eyes. He loved the makeup, the social commentary, the sense of doing something that hadn't been done, then doing it over and over again as long as they kept paying you. McDowall was a pro -- temperamental...
Disney then promptly moved its remake of Mighty Joe Young, the story of a giant ape on the loose in New York City, out of summer and head to head with Prince in December. Although Disney is known for hardball scheduling tactics (it rereleased The Little Mermaid against Fox's Anastasia, for example), it insisted it had decided to move the ape well before DreamWorks switched Prince of Egypt. Late last week Disney moved Mighty Joe Young back a week...