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Word: monkey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvey Allen) leans across the restaurant table and confides that the reason for her amazing psychic powers is that she was born with a tail. Yes! Her mamma had it surgically removed and kept it in the medicine cabinet, "right between the 4-Way Cold Tablets and the monkey blood." Which is about where, in the cinematic scheme of things, True Stories fits. Right between a 4-H rally and the Monkees' Head. Between Dallas and Paris, Texas. Between Charles Kuralt and Fellini. Between David Letterman and David Lynch. Between everything you forgot about rock movies and nothing you quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divine Comedy for the '80s | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

There were more than a few moments of contentment. Despite their difficulties, the Perelmans remained married for 40 years, until Laura's death in 1970. During that period, S.J. contributed to two of the wildest Marx Brothers films, Horse Feathers and Monkey Business, and he became lionized in Britain and the U.S. as the reigning master of the comic essay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feather Complex S.J. Perelman: a Life | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...daunting job since humor tends to get stubborn in the face of pathology. Mark Wade, for example, who lectured on comedy writing for kid shows, gave his listeners the ABCs of a joke. "With C you pull the rug out from under them," he explained. He brought out a monkey dummy, who said, "My sister picks on me." That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: 600 Unmoved Lips | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...monkey said. "She always smells that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: 600 Unmoved Lips | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Lucas learned most of what he knows about merchandising from the example of Walt Disney, and Epcot's emporiums are already filled with replicas of such cuddly EO creatures as Hooter (an oboe-nosed elephant), Fuzzball (a scarlet monkey butterfly) and the Geex, Idy and Ody (sort of Siamese-twin Wookies). Nor is the film a reckless investment for Kodak. The previous attraction in the company's Magic Eye Theater, a 3-D film called Magic Journeys, was seen by 19 million people in less than four years. Asked how long EO will run, a Disney spokesman replies, "EOns." Walt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Go to the Feelies | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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