Word: apes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dedicated to King Kong. Like his predecessor, this jolly green giant is captured in Africa and packed off to the U.S. There he delights the gaping crowds by playing the trumpet and baseball. Alas, he also disrupts traffic and incurs the wrath of policemen. Here ends the similarity of ape and monster. William Joyce's plot and pictures provide laughter, thrills and, most important, a happy ending. Fair enough. Kong, after all, was a tragic figure; Bob is a comic creature. It was beauty killed the beast; it is whimsy keeps the reptile alive...
...thing to do in politics," says Johnston, "is to tell the truth during a campaign. After you've concluded that you can't win that way, the second most statesmanlike thing is to borrow from Earl Long and tell the people you lied." Johnston doesn't expect Bush to ape Long, but he does expect him "to set the stage and move by degrees. At some point, possibly under the cover of the National Economic Commission or an economic summit between the White House and Congress, Bush could tank his campaign dribble and say, 'Well, I thought we could...
MONKEY SHINES. Man meets capuchin monkey; monkey falls for man; monkey goes bananas. George A. Romero's deft thriller is the best ape movie since the 1933 King Kong...
...already appeared in six movies. Since then he has brightened 22 more with his surf's-up amiability and his bursts of flummoxed intensity. He has played a Texas teenager (The Last Picture Show) and a down-on-his-heels boxer (Fat City), second-string to a big ape (the 1976 King Kong), a gentle lover and a sick slasher (he was both in Jagged Edge). "I like to mix it up as much as possible," says Bridges. "It lowers my boredom level...
...primitive racial harassment. Decisions by both the Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had already upheld Rochon's claims of humiliating pranks that began when he was assigned in 1983 to the FBI office in Omaha. A photograph of his children was defaced by pasting an ape's head over the face of his son. Invitations to office functions with the words "Don't come" written across them were placed in his mail slot along with other demeaning messages...