Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after frolicking happily for awhile, Emo's animals start butchering each other. Emo's song ends with the monkey committing suicide "by screwing his head into the light socket/and the birds picked him clean/and the people thought he was a wiiind chiiime...
...hate Emo Phillips. He's weird, and he's whiny, but he's very funny. Whether his exaggerated appearance and style helps or hinders his material is beside the point--it all works. You'll leave singing the Animal Square Dance, electrocuted monkey-bone wind chimes tinkling in your head...
...surprisingly, Levi the scientist is fascinated by work and variety, a curiosity he shares with Libertino Faussone, the main storyteller of The Monkey's Wrench. "The world is beautiful because it's all different," says ! Faussone, an itinerant rigger who has worked on construction jobs all over the world. He is a fiction, says Levi, but authentic, a composite of workmen the author has known. The rigger's tales too have the pitch of stretched truths. On an eight-story tower, a mystery man collects dust that he claims comes from the stars. Faussone tells...
...already enthusiastic; labs in the U.S., Europe and Asia, as well as several biotechnology companies, have requested samples of the tailored gene containing the firefly-virus DNA for use in their own research. Another UCSD team has taken this technique a step further, transferring the luciferase gene into monkey cells growing in laboratory culture...
...tough little monkey," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "He gets in the corners, and he has some skill, too. He works. He's a good skater. He even passes well. He complements the other two very well...