Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some 20,000 tourists nevertheless found shelter. Françoise Sagan left for the relative calm of Normandy; Brigitte Bardot was pregnant. Saint-Trop has nearly as many candlelit cellar clubs as the Left Bank, and the vogue has spread along the coast as far as Nice, where the Gorilla Club boasts of stereophonic sound. At Whisky à Gogo in Cannes the doors were locked after midnight, because there was room for no more customers. In Monte Carlo the gambling casino complained about the lack of players; in Juan-les-Pins the complaint was that the players were too canny...
...prove it. There may be two kinds-a monstrous, hairy creature 8 ft. tall, and a smaller one no bigger than a man. The monks of one Tibetan monastery display to travelers the scalp of an alleged snowman, and Heuvelmans argues that its hair pattern, much like a gorilla's, proves it is not a fake made out of some animal's skin. The remains of giant ape-men have been found in southeastern Asia, and the yetis may be their descendants...
Anthony Quinn as the strong man is a perfect brute: a genuine gorilla without ever a stroke of undue breast-beating...
Answering a dusty question, Adlai Stevenson told reporters in Paris, "I shall not seek the nomination," then followed up the old response with a parable. Holocaust had obliterated life on earth, Adlai recounted, leaving one shook-up gorilla. Wandering hungrily on the ashen plains, the ape at length came upon a cave. In the cave was a beautiful lady gorilla, who purred: "We are the only two living beings on earth." "Lady," said the tired male, "have you got anything to eat?" From deep in the cave the lady gorilla brought forth a large, red apple. "Oh, lord," moaned...
...human appeal" than in "straight clownish antics," they teamed up in 1927, and as bumblingly chivalrous misfits strove ineffectually to solve hopeless problems (e.g., while struggling to get a grand piano over a narrow suspension bridge across a horrifying chasm between two Alpine peaks, they would encounter, midway, a gorilla). Hardy was the master of mime and the bowler-bouncing doubletake, and, faced with Laurel's witless works, the withering glare. But it was brink-of-tears Laurel (who has also suffered a stroke) who somehow, always looking miserable, saved them...