Word: aping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scalded Female Ape...
...inspiring or are they trying to put the comic strips out of business? Witness for example the social outrage titled "Benediction" [TIME, Feb. 18]. Just what is this supposed to be, or what is it trying to represent? It looks like either the missing link or a scalded female ape searching for a long-lost flea...
Streicher. "Good Lord! Is that him? No loathesome ape, but another little man with another nervous twitch. He has a trick of throwing his head right back and contemplating the ceiling with an air of preoccupation with Higher Things...
Unlike Hollywood's recent flasco in a production of "The Hiry Ape," an old English movie version of "The Emperor Jones" retains the essential theme of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy, and by abridging it is able to include a wider period Brutus Jones's life leading up to his fight through the jungle...
...bottom-slapping commercial artist, has a vaguely kind idea he can help straighten her out; she promptly determines to devour his soul. Douglas' wife Ann (Ruth Warrick), suspecting nothing, is all solicitude and sympathy; their little girl Lee (Connie Laird) is so infatuated that she begins to ape Evelyn's haloed mannerisms. Sick-minded Evelyn, using always the silkiest of deceptions, needs only a few weeks to set all the members of the household against each other: servants, artist's-model, wife & child fly apart like a fragmentation bomb, leaving her in complete possession of the artist...