Word: aping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Colossal amounts of money are afloat in the hands of a new entrepreneurial class that has fixated on "masterpieces." One cannot spend $39.9 million on houses, Ferraris or caviar without looking like an ape. Art is the saving grace by which any nasty Croesus with more money than he knows what to do with can look virtuous. It confers an oily sheen of spiritual transcendence and cultural responsibility upon individual and corporation alike. That is why even a soft-porn merchant like Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse magazine, is now a "major" collector...
Bush has long been a dangerously awkward speaker. He often sets off in one direction at the beginning of a sentence and wanders off in another before it ends. Metaphors do not track. Phrases with a tinny ring -- "I really went ape" or "I was in deep doo-doo" -- pour out of him involuntarily. Excitable on his feet, a man who lunges for political bait, the Vice President is a high risk in debates...
...workmen the author has known. The rigger's tales too have the pitch of stretched truths. On an eight-story tower, a mystery man collects dust that he claims comes from the stars. Faussone tells of a job in the tropics where one of his helpers was an ape: "He wanted to play, but he didn't want to strain himself. But I tell you, those other three goons didn't do much more than he did, and at least he wasn't afraid of falling...
When last we saw him, the big ape was flat on his back after falling for Jessica Lange in more ways than one. But -- surprise! -- King Kong was only down, not out, for the count. In King Kong Lives, a sequel to the 1976 film to be released this Christmas, the lovesick hunk is saved by the brilliant Dr. Amy Franklin, played by Linda Hamilton. She replaces Kong's broken heart with, of course, the latest and largest in artificial tickers. She also arranges a blind date with a brown-haired lovely called Lady Kong. "He gives...
...that's a big monkey, thought Paleontologist Alan Walker as he plucked the skull fragment from a gully west of Kenya's Lake Turkana. But that was no monkey. The bone belonged to a 2.5 million-year-old ape-man called Australopithecus boisei. The discovery surprised Walker, since he and most anthropologists believed the boisei species had evolved 2.2 million years ago. "This is probably more significant than almost anything we've had for a good number of years," says Anthropologist Richard Leakey, one of Walker's coauthors of a report about the fossil in last week's issue...