Word: apes
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...Quinn, 55, was picked the best of the bunch. But wait a minute. The next day judges William Styron and Peter Matthiessen claimed that their panel did not want the full award to go to Ishmael -- described as "a series of philosophical conversations between a man and a great ape" -- and charged the Turner organization with misrepresenting their position in its publicity releases. Not so, said Ray Bradbury, another juror, who defended Ishmael and ragged his colleagues: "I think Styron and Matthiessen are literary snobs...
...Life, a quarterly published by Fox TV's owner, Rupert Murdoch, is almost sweet by comparison. The inaugural issue features an article by syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry, the baby-boomer laureate, and at least a dozen other stories ape his smirky, adolescent style. The magazine exudes this attitude most succinctly in a column by Mike Kelly, who deplores the emergence of a less macho, more candid style of masculinity: "I don't know any New Men. I don't know any women who know any New Men. I don't even know any women who want to know...
...monkey business started back in 1973 when Charles River Laboratories set up a breeding colony of rhesus monkeys on an island in the Florida Keys. Since then the primates have gone ape, swelling in numbers to more than 4,000, fouling the water and destroying endangered mangrove trees on state-owned land. Despite protests from environmentalists and nearby property owners, Bausch & Lomb Inc., which bought the colony in a package deal in 1984, refused to relocate it. Then in May the state department of natural resources quietly agreed to a settlement in which Bausch & Lomb would be allowed to phase...
...quarreling amid rusting engine blocks, scrawny chickens and mail- order guitars. But a train trip is more. It provides a window on majestic nature that is often inaccessible by other means. That's not Busch Gardens out there in the Alaskan outback, nor are you riding past the robotic ape at a theme park. Those are real moose in rut careening toward the train, real bears, mountains and mud slides on the other side of the window. Elsewhere, American rails wander beside breathtaking canyons, mountain ranges and waterfalls. So, wherever you're headed, climb aboard this summer. The experience will...
...character won't be advanced by flying in experts with their own agendas," says Wolfgang Templin, a member of the parliament from the leftist, ecology- minded Initiative for Peace and Human Rights. To develop a free-market economy, Templin and other critics maintain, East Germany does not have to ape the economy of West Germany. But that is precisely what East Germans voted for overwhelmingly last month, Pieroth responds. Says he: "We can't dictate to the East things that we think should be different if what they want is what we have." In Pieroth's view, the mandate...