Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luis V. Melendez, research associate in Bacteriology and Immunology and head of the research team, said that this is the first time scientists have located and identified such a virus. He said the experiment, which involved injecting a virus extracted from one monkey into another, could "eventually bring about a solution to the cancer problem...
...incident in which a Jewish businessman insists that the theme from Exodus be pumped into an operating room "so everyone should know what religion he is." Still, there are many spots where Roth omits scenes that beg to be told. We see Portnoy berate a girl called The Monkey when she dresses up like a whore for a party at Mayor Lindsay's, but, unfortunately, we don't get to see the party itself...
...adult, Portnoy makes his most strenuous escape attempt with the aid of the Monkey, a hypererotic fashion model from the impoverished hills of West Virginia who is the fulfillment of Portnoy's steamiest adolescent sex fantasies. The Monkey business ends in a frenzied bedroom burlesque in Rome, made the merrier by the participation of an Italian prostitute. Comments Portnoy: "I can best describe the state I sub sequently entered as one of unrelieved busy-ness." But instead of solving his problem, the Monkey is just another source of shame. She wants Alex's social respectability while...
...using the psychoanalytic monologue as a literary device, Roth has achieved an individuality of tone and gesture and a retrieval of detail that transform his characters into super-stereotypes, well suited for this age of exaggeration. Sophie and Jack Portnoy are pop Jewish parents; the Monkey is the apotheosis of the contemporary Id Girl; and Portnoy embodies not only the tics of a man trying to disentangle himself from his background, but also the latent fear of the liberal humanist that he may find himself out. It is no small concern to the Assistant Commissioner of Human Opportunity, champion...
Quinn is surprisingly effective at making Conchis a cross between Picasso and a monkey, as he was in the novel. In a part that calls for relentless coyness, Candice Bergen cannot be said to act, but her beauty is so compelling that the male audience, like Orpheus, can hardly be blamed for forsaking the future for a backward glance...