Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring along a gorilla mask to wear in case of encounters with your wife, and you plan to change your new roommate into a reasonablefacs imile of yourself...
...Lives Alone in the Forest." Her real name was Dian Fossey, and she was a onetime occupational therapist from Louisville. For most of the past 18 years Fossey had lived at a remote camp on the slopes of a dormant volcano. There she studied and befriended the rare mountain gorillas, fiercely defending the huge, gentle creatures against the encroachment of poachers. Almost everyone, including her last research assistant, Wayne McGuire, 34, a doctoral candidate from the University of Oklahoma, felt she was more comfortable with the primates than with human beings, and Fossey apparently agreed. "I have no friends...
...where the wild things are: deaf-and-dumb doorknobs, feral party animals that toss their heads like volleyballs, a terrier-faced knight and his sheep-dog steed, a silly sage with a talking bird growing out of his head, and an orange-haired hybrid of a buffalo and a gorilla, who walks like Charles Laughton's Hunchback of Notre Dame and talks like Grover on Sesame Street...
Your sister's in love with him. Your mother's in love with him. Jessica Lange, for Pete's sake, that blonde-haried, brown-eyed, gorilla-yer-dreams, even she's in love with...
...most hapless figure in the book is a muscle-bound liberal who wants to save the property. He fails. Too many tenants prefer their own chaos to someone else's order, in this case the Gorilla Management Co.'s. Glynn concludes with an inevitable apocalypse, and none too soon. By the time the Nordic Ice Queen and the Madonna of Heat wrestle for the soul of the building, the author's inspired riffs on urban rot have been overworked as allegory. But not before a strong and exuberant talent has shown his stuff...