Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matchmaker and midwife. From four rare pygmy hedgehog tenrecs, 20 have been raised for other zoos and eleven kept on Jersey. From four African civet cats, 14 have been shipped off and nine kept for further breeding. The zoo's most expensive inmate, a $12,000 male lowland gorilla, fathered one infant in July, and has impregnated a second female. The most notable success is the whiteeared pheasant, possibly extinct in the wild. The zoo has bred 51 of them and exported ten pairs to seven countries...
...Harvard senior, Lewis Jones, got $25 a day to wear a gorilla costume and hand out leaflets in a shopping center in Peabody, Mass...
...that of the straight world, they intensify it. They spend several days completely twisted on dope, booze, and lack of sleep, and find this state of mind matches that of the gambling loonies who hang out at the Circus-Circus along with the Forty Flying Carazito Brothers, flaming gorilla, and Six Nymphet Sisters from San Diego. In fact, nobody notices how twisted they are, for in Vegas, one can pursue his own dream, no matter how savage -- just as long as one doesn't "burn the locals." And the doped-up duo's antics reach outrageous limits. They terrorize...
Insofar as opera seasons are ever boldly innovative, this one promises to be so. For one thing, the title character of the New York City Opera's grand spring premiere, Henze's The Young Lord, is reportedly a gorilla. Even the Metropolitan Opera decided to be boldly innovative this year, rather in the manner of President Nixon playing peacemaker or President Bok playing basketball. The Met instituted student admissions ($4.50, half an hour before the performance), but its boldest innovation was something called a Look-In, in which Danny Kaye explained the joys of opera to an audience of school...
...scripts, then interviewed him. Part of the Allen magic, Kanfer learned, grows out of his obsession with the improbable. "His mind takes very big leaps. There is an old movie with Laurel and Hardy carrying a piano across a tiny, swaying bridge. Funny, but still fairly logical. Then a gorilla appears at the other side of the bridge. In Allen's humor, there is always a gorilla at the end of his bridge...