Word: aping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unwinds, the performers follow carefully drawn stage directions. At 48 minutes sharp, for instance, the percussionist is instructed to "feed all animals, fish in bowls, birds and/or fowl in cages or wooden crates. A stuffed bird in cage is also fed." The director is told "to enter with an ape or with a pack of dogs on leash." At 68 minutes, the painter is instructed to "begin throwing nails on magnetic surface...
...paint a rather simple, ordinary landscape, say some cherry trees in blossom with leaves and grass and sky and a couple of little clouds and, to balance the sky, maybe a basketball court, and playing on the court are several nuns and one of the nuns is wearing an ape suit with long red fur and spangles-forget that. Now, to get the color of the blossoms, does he go out into the orchard and rip from the tree the blossom and bring it back with him to his atelier-or pad, as you say-and look at it under...
Lady, in short, is just a routine withdrawal from Hollywood's bottomless blood bank, but it does give Olivia a grand chance to go ape. She gibbers, growls, simpers, screeches; rolls her eyes, tears her hair, rattles the bars, climbs the walls, bawls a snatch of Alouette, jabs a villain's eyes out with some jagged metal strips; and at the climax, screaming like mad, crawls through the nearest gutter in a $400 negligee. Attagirl, Ollie...
...fastidiousness. Pierre is an artist who performs with the delicacy of a ballet dancer." One of the oils sold for $90. But not every monkey-hoax story ends with all the humans fooled. Wrote one of the critics, as the perceptive punch line of a harsh review: "Only an ape could have done this...
Human beings, Rock charged, are "as sexually promiscuous and as hard to satiate as the ape. But sex in the human being consists of that indefinable attribute called love." The natural law of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, he said, demands that this love and the humanitarianism into which it is channeled be translated into responsible parenthood in a society based on monogamy...