Word: aping
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...news story also featured intentionally startling and disturbing "artist's renderings" of what human animal combinations might look like, including an image of one creature with a human face and ape-like body that looks out at us with a pained expression from behind the bars of a cage...
...single brand," Fireman said at February's Super Show, the industry's big trade fair. As Nike pulled away over the past couple of years, retailers began to up their swoosh orders. At the urging of retailers (they hate having any one brand dominate), competitors began to ape Nike's look. Says Fireman: "I don't think anybody had bad intentions, but we were fools to follow...
...Bestial. I studied Jane Goodall and her tapes on the apes and everything so that I learned ape movement and ape sounds...
...just, uhm... I just do an ape sound...
Perils lurk for the male thriller writer giddy enough to cast a woman as the hero of a biff-bam adventure series. Just how hard can she bop the bad guys without coming off as an ape in drag? And how much can she fiddle with makeup or fret over runny panty hose before a reader of either sex decides that yeah, yeah, too much verisimilitude is unreal...