Word: apes
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...from several individuals, a piece of skull, arm bones and a leg bone. Taken together, the fossils push the emergence of two-legged walking, or bipedalism, 500,000 years earlier than any other data had indicated. Says Walker: "This gets close to the hypothesized time of splitting of the ape and human lineages...
...stars, muscular action, high concept-and Disney cartoons-to bring in the really serious money. So here's what Americans will get in six successive weekends after Crimson Tide opens: Die Hard with a Vengeance; Casper (the friendly ghost, now a live-action apparition); Madison County; the killer-ape thriller Congo; Batman Forever; and Pocahontas. Then no fewer than three big-adventure films will go head to head: Judge Dredd; Ron Howard's astronaut drama Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks; and the current TV favorite of eight-year-old martial artists, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie...
Gordon is as good a Stanley as could be found on a college stage, and occassionally better. Half-naked, he snarls and grunts like the ape Blanche terms him, while never losing his fundamental intelligence. Gordon and Howard work well together as characters who recognize that despite their divergent facades, they are disturbingly similar...
Albert's music is not simply a commentary on its sources, however; it is a transformation of them. "I seek a new synthesis: to find new relations between old things," he once said. "I want to form a continuum with the past, not ape it." As Albert becomes part of the past, the proof of his accomplishment is that he did exactly that...
...They were impressed by how closely we could ape their form," he said. "We sent them a couple copies to show what was done....They thought it was funny...