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Perhaps the most impressive claims came from Francine Patterson, a psychologist at Stanford, who said she had managed to teach a hulking female gorilla named Koko more than 400 signs. According to Patterson, the gifted ape then proceeded to higher linguistic levels by using word combinations to insult her trainers (You nut), compose rhymes (bear hair, squash wash) and invent metaphors (eye hat for mask, finger bracelet for ring...
Harberger isn't able to face up to the issues or even to be aware of the issues involved. He is an economic genius and a moral imbecile. To call his logic sophomoric would be an insult to sophomores. He's not even Machiavellian; he's just plam obtuse...
Nobody seemed to realize that to send Ali to Africa at a time when diplomatic heavyweights like Zbigniew Brzezinski and Clark Clifford were pleading the U.S. cause in the Middle East and India would be seen as a racial insult...
...World and Jumbo in the early '60s, lis film appearances were generally unmemorable. He was at his best playing New York theaters and nightclubs, where lis free-wheeling (but never blue) imagination could run riot. In a typical turn, Durante would good-naturedly insult waiters, fire off his ineffable quips ("Surrounded by assassins"), and let loose with his nonsensical songs (Inka Dinka Doo). He delighted in flinging props at the band or in ripping apart his piano for laughs. When Durante took his antics to radio in the '40s and television in the '50s, he found millions...
...were already President. Crowds were usually kept at a distance by restraining ropes and squads of Secret Service men (Bush refused Secret Service protection), Iowans did not get much of a chance look the candidate in the eye, as they like to do. Above all, Reagan seemed to insult them by refusing to join the Republican debate on Jan. 5, which was watched by an estimated 58% of the adults in the state. Complains Sheryl Readout, a Marshall County G.O.P. executive: "Reagan was thumbing his nose at Iowa. Iowa has done the same thing...