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...single gorilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dwindling Breed | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...hero, a Buddhist. Penfield twists the story; he exists in the first person at times, but these are Joe's versions of Penfield. And Doctorow dances between the future and the past. One moment Penfield is a coal miner's son from Seattle, the next he is a Caucasian gorilla probing the mysteries of Zen in a rice palace outside Tokyo. And Doctorow's prose switches just as quickly to poetry...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Conjurer of Words | 11/8/1980 | See Source »

...people in tow, and he may decide-today, tomorrow or perhaps ten minutes from now-that it is time to put on his Indian headdress and call the rest of the Malibu tribe to a war dance. He has been known to show up at the supermarket in a gorilla suit. Why? Why not? "I guess I'm a ham," he says. However he costumes himself, he knows that he can always cool off by jumping into the lavish Jacuzzi bath and forget everything but his motto, floating on a banner overhead: Vita Celebratio Est (Life Is a Celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Larry Hagman: Vita Celebratio Est | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...words no longer flow. Instead, Ali forces them out. You can almost hear him thinking, "Got to sell this fight, got to...sell...this...fight." Ali now waves both arms like a broken wind-mill when he rants and raves. He has become a professional wrestler. He is Gorilla Monsoon...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: Muhammad Ali: Losing the Real Title | 7/15/1980 | See Source »

Such a history has tended to dam age the self-esteem of TV weathercasters. Sometimes they even suspect themselves of fraud. Willard Scott has been heard to say, with an undercurrent of melancholy: "A trained gorilla could do what I do." In fact, even if some of today's forecasters are merely local station Ken dolls rolled out to mouth data gleaned from WE 6-1212, many are knowledgeable meteorologists who provide a valuable public service. Gordon Barnes of WDVM-TV in Washington, D.C., operates his own independent weather service. The best in the business is Dr. Frank Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Wonderful Art of Weathercasting | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

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