Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high-pressure telephone sales tactics. During one 30-day period, the Detroit office made more than 50,000 long-distance calls; prospects were harassed with what Noel Fox, a Detroit federal judge, called "unrestrained and unambiguous predictions of certain or enormous profits." Salesmen were driven hard: sometimes, men wearing gorilla and Superman suits pranced around urging them to boost orders...
Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo swings from a chandelier, escapes from menacing samurai and dresses up as a gorilla-all in the line of duty. He plays a professional stunt man in the French film L 'Animal and performs all his feats himself. Co-Star Raquel Welch, 36, portrays his daredevil partner, but relied on a stand-in stunt woman. Awed by Belmondo, Welch says: "He's the embodiment of all the best qualities of the French male...
...Though the researchers added only one or two new genes to a bacterium's collection of thousands of genes, the creation of such hybrid molecules was a stunning feat. The accomplishment seemed to breach one of nature's more inviolable barriers. Even primates as closely related as gorilla and man are so different genetically that they cannot produce offspring. Thus it was not size alone that made King Kong and his ladylove a mismatch. The real species barrier is in the genes...
...organization, called Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW), protested to Atlantic, which took down the billboard. Now WAVAW is demanding that Atlantic, Warner Brothers and Elektra clean up their album covers, but the companies are stonewalling. Says Warner Bros. Publicity Director Bob Merlis: "If a group wants a gorilla on the cover, they get a gorilla on the cover, unless it's illegal or there's a marketing reason why gorillas aren't a good idea...
...budget of the original, the only way he can think of to do the monster is as a full-size model clumsily driven by 20-odd motors that keep breaking down. It's only natural then that when that idea flops he resorts to a man in a gorilla suit. At the risk of denigrating the obvious care and hard work that De Laurentiis' technicians have put in, I must say that to have a stunt man cavorting about in a Halloween costume is an insult to Willis O'Brien and the Kong he gave...