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...party that invented the Vietnam War, with the last word on that kind of analysis. "'You have scarce the soul of a louse,' he said, 'but the roots of sin are there.'" Robert S. Strauss, the Democrats' party chairman, compared the party not to a louse but to a gorilla, but he evidently had only the mildest, friendliest, least threatening kind of gorilla in mind--after all, the party did not want to frighten any potential voters away...
...Being chairman of the Democratic Party is a little like making love to a gorilla," says Robert S. Strauss. "You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla's tired." But judging from the mini-convention held in Kansas City last weekend, the party is more like a wolf in sheep's clothing then a gorilla, and Strauss most definitely is doing a fair job as shepherd...
...first, often hilarious section, they are cast as voyeurs, peering coolly into cages, stop watches and check lists at the ready, to study the sexual behavior of their victims. "Did you record that interaction?" one of them inquires in the ineffable jargon of his craft, as male gorilla approaches female. The analogy between ape and human behavior in this realm is dubious at best, the more so when the subjects are "interacting" not in their natural state but in prison. This portion of Primate makes the Yerkes crowd look like fugitives from a Woody Allen movie...
...baseball fans it is a great moment in history-like the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock or King John's signing the Magna Carta. There stands Babe Ruth with two strikes on him, gorilla-chested, monkey-faced, pipestem-legged, pointing imperiously to deep centerfield. It is the 1932 World Series against Chicago in Wrigley Field, and when Cub Pitcher Charlie Root fires the ball, the Babe hits a vast home run to the very spot, winning the ball game. Unfortunately, things did not happen quite that way. But, as Robert Creamer demonstrates again and again in this book...
...strongest character and sput ters four-letter words until some pages read like excerpts from a washroom wall. Talk is his forte, and the talk in this book is uninspired. But the action is sharp, and Higgins provides some hilarious glimpses of the home life of the North American gorilla - one thug is on cortisone for colitis, another takes a contract because his wife needs some root-canal work. Cogan himself is a memorable meanie, easily the reptile of the month...