Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called Ella -- is placed in the care of the comely Melanie (Kate McNeil), who trains simians to function as the hands of the disabled. As Allan's new housekeeper, Ella is a dream. She fetches; she spoon-feeds him; she even does windows. The clever little monkey has a mind of her own. Whoops! She wants to give it to Allan...
...monkey cam. In one of the rages Ella is transmitting to him, Allan bites through his lip, and Ella, with a lover's bold devotion, gently licks the blood. She is not so gentle in drawing blood from the women she sees as rivals for the man and the mind she must possess...
...climax (Ella pulls the power switch). And at the end, Monkey Shines soars into that rarefied sci-fi air where melodrama meets metaphor. Romero, best known for Night of the Living Dead 20 years ago, has grown up here, grown past Hitchcock homages to fix on the war of mind and body that everyone ceaselessly wages. While he's at it, he has made the smartest dark fantasy since David Cronenberg's 1986 update of The Fly and the best monkey movie since the original King Kong...
Probably the hardest kind of crime novel to write is the exploration of the criminal mind from within, the stream of psychotic consciousness brought to its peak in past years by Julian Symons (The Players and the Game) and Ruth Rendell (Live Flesh). That sort of book has been attempted unsuccessfully this season by Robert B. Parker, whose uninsightful Crimson Joy (Delacorte; 211 pages; $16.95) suggests that he would do better to return to slam-bang action. Symons and Rendell, meanwhile, are represented by more conventional fare resurrecting characters from some of their earlier novels...
Does she believe it? "I don't know," says Bianca shyly. Her mind is stocked with what she has learned from television and movies. Bianca says she wants to go to college because if she does not, she will "end up like that lady in a cartoon" who sings because she didn't finish school. But she will not take science, for fear of burning her hand in a lab, "like that woman on The Young and the Restless." She talks about the bad effects of cocaine and reveals that she learned about the subject from a TV movie called...