Word: diurnal
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...point where Mallabar, in glamorous, leonine middle age, has lost track of the scruples part of his success formula. His nemesis is Hope Clearwater, who is on the lam from a troubled marriage in England and working as one of several learned acolytes who patiently observe and record the diurnal activities of chimps. She is assigned a small number of animals who have separated from the main group, and almost at once she stumbles on big news. Peaceful primates? Strictly sloganeering. The chimps are capable of killing and cannibalism. Before long, she realizes that a kind of genocide is occurring...
Probably not. For what is really important to Walter and India Bridge (Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward), citizens of Kansas City a half-century ago, is that the order of their rounds -- diurnal and annual -- is preserved. Drama in their lives is like crabgrass on their lawn: something to be rooted out the minute it appears and not dwelled upon thereafter...