Word: aped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rhetoric and many of his proposed programs resemble Clinton's, the Blair team has borrowed most heavily the campaign tactics that the President has used successfully twice. Several Labour operatives worked in the Clinton 1992 campaign and produced a confidential memo detailing "lessons learned." They urged Blair to ape Clinton's vaunted "rapid response" operation, its extensive phone banking and--thanks to the President's '92 pollster, Stan Greenberg (who is currently working with Labour)--more sophisticated survey techniques than were then common in Britain. "I'd say the most valuable things we've learned from the Americans...
BINTI-JUA Although cradling her own baby at the time, she rescued a junior member of another species (ours) who fell into her cage. Maybe more humans should ape...
...Higdon is going to get many more of those," Harvard coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "He got the first one, he got the ape off his back...
Where the ape comes from is mysterious. He and others of his species apparently live among us, gloomy illuminati who are most often unseen, though they worry a lot about people. Toward the novel's end there is a confrontation scene in which a dozen prominent (though frustrated and deeply saddened) humanists reveal themselves to be apes, and bid the dreary world of men goodbye. Erasmus delivers a sanctimonious homily of farewell: "Where we come from, we say that if a...person is on his knees you offer him your hand. If he rejects it you offer him both hands...
Wrong and dull, O wise one. And lugubrious. And sloppily written. And humorless. Not a laugh in a carload. Somebody send author Hoeg a Fawlty Towers tape! Somebody hit that ape in the kisser with a custard pie! And in your shiny fur, is that a flea I see--that Hoeg, in his solemnity, has missed...