Word: aping
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...released last fall. But the scope and narrative demands of a full-length motion picture meant his first big-screen venture would inevitably be tougher - it was critically panned, even by him. "I had issues with it," Gondry says of Human Nature, about a man raised as an ape. He declines to elaborate, apart from saying the Kaufman-written film, starring Patricia Arquette and Tim Robbins, "was a little hard to get into." Few people tried - it grossed only $700,000 at the U.S. box office. Gondry turned a bad situation into an opportunity for growth by filling...
...Marsh is a seasoned performer, and a member of what he calls the “inner world” of circus performance (and no, that doesn’t mean he hangs out with bearded ladies and ape boys...
...Harvard also has an added responsibility to provide services and support to survivors, and that includes establishing a safe and confidential method for reporting and pursuing disciplinary recourse against their attackers. Kavulla would sacrifice this responsibility in order to ape criminal justice procedure (which he feels would “encourage” survivors to report the crimes committed against them)—a move that would be as inappropriate as it would be ineffective in a campus setting...
...reading that 25 million dollars are desperately needed to save the Great Ape from extinction and watching daily reports of the environmental disasters that are taking place from our oceans to the rain forests, how in good concience can this administration be so blind as to add to their already reckless and obscene spending of taxpayer money. Claudia Thresher New Orleans...
...drink five or more drinks during a typical two-week period in 2002, according to a National College Health Assessment survey. That only steels their minoritarian dash. After all, what better way to drown dorky Harvard stereotypes—and dorkier Harvard realities—than to ape our non-Ivy League peers and co-opt the carouser’s cachet...