Word: gorilla
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...Prymate, the most hated play of the Broadway season, let's be charitable. An admittedly odd drama about a pair of scientific researchers fighting over a gorilla who has been taught to speak in sign language, it did just about everything it could to offend everyone (casting a black man, Andre DeShields, as the ape; staging an interspecies sex scene that ranks as one of the bad taste highlights of the new millennium). And, predictably, the critics hooted it out of town. But Mark Medoff?s play had some ideas, it packed a lot into its speedy 100 minutes...
...will the nature of the challenge the world faces. Although scientists have done a lot of thinking about global warming, they are just beginning to grapple with the problem of how global warming and solar dimming interact. As Ramanathan puts it, "It's like we have a new gorilla sitting down at the table"--and it could turn out to be a very big gorilla indeed. --By J. Madeleine Nash
...security problems when we don't even have a legitimate strategy. The homeland-security plan is another good example of how the U.S. government is too big, too slow and too unimaginative to do anything about terrorism except throw money at it. It's like watching a 900-lb. gorilla fight off a swarm of gnats with a sledgehammer. THOM WILDER Laguna Niguel, Calif...
...group of anonymous feminists hiding their faces with gorilla masks—known as the Guerrilla Girls—spoke to a packed audience in Science Center A last night...
...Definitely the hottest dancer there was a big gorilla,” Ryan D. Hughes ’06 said. “Everybody’s sweating in their t-shirts and he’s out there in this heavy costume, just for the love...