Word: aping
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...Kennedy's piece, and I gladly tell of it: it comprises twelve paragraphs, only one of which, the second to last, deals with black response to King Kong. Kennedy's point throughout it is not that blacks identify with King Kong, but that we all identify with him--"the ape in us," as Kennedy puts it. Black response is but a variation of Kennedy's on Kennedy's underlying theme. Tell me: is this any grounds for grievance...
Anyone can attack the budget; a trained ape could cut the budget by five, ten, 20 or 30 billion dollars. But the cumulative effect is that we would end up where we were last year: paying the penalty for successive reductions in real terms in the defense effort...
With King Kong set to swing into 2,200 theaters and 17 countries, the great ape's publicity agents have been beating their drums with predictable frenzy. To celebrate the Paris opening, Paramount workers in Hollywood dismantled a 40-ft. Kong model used in the film, shipped it on trucks to New York, then by cargo jet to France. Last week while crowds gathered, the reassembled simian superstar lay in state halfway up the Champs-Elysées with all the grandeur of an embalmed potentate...
Retailers have been eying Kong's potential with .prehensile enthusiasm. It will soon be possible to drink King Kong cocktails made from grenadine, orange juice-and bourbon-from an ape-shaped Jim Beam bottle. For kids there will be stuffed monkeys in three sizes, board games, knee socks, T shirts, lunch boxes, chewing gum and a King Kong candy bar. Though most of this stuff will go on sale too late for Christmas, shopkeepers seem to be taking the news philosophically. After all, with Producer Dino de Laurentiis already at work on King Kong, Part II, the monkey business...
...pigeon for Skinner, an ape for DeVore...