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Your item about the America Online chat with Koko, the gorilla who communicates through sign language, purported to be a "partial transcript" of Koko's chat, in which I helped to relay her signed responses [NOTEBOOK, May 11]. First of all, the headline LOVE DRINK NIPPLE FAKE was made up by TIME and was not a quote from Koko. Your piece, which impugned my veracity, included a supposed "transcript" that contained deceptive inaccuracies. You lifted selected phrases from the transcript, rearranged them and presented them as if they were verbatim conversation. Operating on "gorilla time" rather than Internet chat time...
...scaly athleticism pioneered by H.R. Giger's mantid man-eaters in the Alien series. And while the snub-nosed, micro-eared Godzilla of the '60s and '70s had a vaguely mammalian mien--appropriate for a creature whose Japanese name, Gojira, is an amalgam of kujira (whale) and gorira (gorilla)--the fin-de-siecle Godzilla has a crocodilian brow, iguana affectations, a T. Rex crouch and a noble if dragonish chin instead of an avuncular Adam's apple. As for the radioactive breath, well, it was hard for Tatopoulos to justify, so don't expect it. No lizard does that...
Last Wednesday, as a measure that would have ended affirmative action in American universities failed in the House of Representatives, it seemed that Harvard might be the 300-pound gorilla of the higher education lobby...
...your livelihood depended on a talking gorilla, you'd stretch the data too. So when an America Online chat with Koko, billed as a gorilla who can communicate with humans through sign language, quickly devolved into a Dada exercise, Dr. Francine Patterson, Koko's sign-language teacher, used some pretty impressive logic to expand her simian friend's limited communication skills. Here's a partial transcript...
...Koko: Gorilla...