Word: aping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donkey Kong (Coleco Industries Inc.). Video games continue to crowd TV programs off the family tube. This one, probably the best translation of an arcade game to home use, boasts bemusing graphics and the most congenial cast (savage ape, imperiled heroine, undaunted hero) this side of Dallas...
Fine outspoken Yale President accordingly listed a number of areas ape for reform in the Ivy rules. He told his audience that the wanted to limit off-campus recruiting see changes made in the opposite direction...
When his attention wavers from the buck, ape-neck Stavros is racked by culture shock. Women provide most of the tremors. He half-believes with his sister Fofo that "most American women were, or had recently been, prostitutes." Almost in wonder at his own creation, Kazan watches his protagonist devote "hours to a consideration of the nature of sexual relations in Western society," then come "to the conclusion he'd started with, that the only way to keep a woman in line was to do what the Anatolians do: run off a string of pregnancies, then dress the woman...
...larger than a chimpanzee's. But unlike its apish kin, it had a clearly human characteristic. It could walk upright, probably as well as modern man. Its arms gathered food, warded off foes and perhaps even made primitive tools. Yet the most remarkable thing about this tiny ape-man is its age. It lived some 4 million years ago, in what is now a forbidding corner of Africa called the Afar Triangle. If its discoverers are right, this ancient biped may be man's oldest direct ancestor, nearly half a million years more ancient than the previous claimant...
...ape-man's bones provide impressive new evidence for what was once a radical evolutionary idea: that our primitive ancestors learned to walk upright before they developed large brains. Though it could walk and probably even run on its hind legs, the Afar creature's cranial capacity was pitifully small, totaling no more than about 400 cc, barely a fourth of the size of the brain of Homo sapiens. The meager skeleton shows no noticeable anatomical variations from the remains of another ancestor, the famed 3.6 million-year-old "Lucy," who has been regarded until...