Word: aping
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...disturbing my slumbers, but he has denied this. And although uncertainties most of us would face at 18-plus were with us all the time, there were still pleasures to be explored. There were wonderful stage productions at the Brattle Theatre, of which Engene O'Neill's "the Hairy Ape" still rings vivid in memory. And at the Kenmore cinema I saw my first films with subtitles. (The foreign films at home tended to be made by Frank Buck or Martin and Osa Johnson and to feature gorillas and large snakes...
...could have finished off Xena and Hercules; he loved as viscerally as anyone on Melrose Place--and his skirts were shorter than Heather Locklear's. He is Tarzan, ape-reared jungle king, the subject of more than 90 books, 40 movies and three TV series. Beginning on June 6 with a new documentary, Investigating Tarzan, AMC will showcase 32 of the films for three nonstop days and nights. They range from the 1918 Tarzan of the Apes through the Johnny Weissmuller vehicles of the 1930s and '40s (see our loinclothed hero beat up Nazis!) to the James Bondian takes...
...rhetoric and many of his proposed programs resemble Clinton's, the Blair team has borrowed most heavily the campaign tactics that the President has used successfully twice. Several Labour operatives worked in the Clinton 1992 campaign and produced a confidential memo detailing "lessons learned." They urged Blair to ape Clinton's vaunted "rapid response" operation, its extensive phone banking and--thanks to the President's '92 pollster, Stan Greenberg (who is currently working with Labour)--more sophisticated survey techniques than were then common in Britain. "I'd say the most valuable things we've learned from the Americans...
BINTI-JUA Although cradling her own baby at the time, she rescued a junior member of another species (ours) who fell into her cage. Maybe more humans should ape...
...Higdon is going to get many more of those," Harvard coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "He got the first one, he got the ape off his back...