Word: monkey
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...seats reserved for the press were full, and so were the 175 places for spectators. A lonely demonstrator wandered in and out of the courthouse in a monkey suit. But U.S. Marshal Charles Gray was not impressed by the hubbub. "When this is all over," he reflected, "it won't have changed anyone's mind." Gray surely has it right. The federal trial that began last week in Little Rock, Ark., will lead to a legal ruling on whether "creation science" (secular evidence for, among other things, the supernatural origin of the universe) may be required in public...
This new case, coming 56 years after the Scopes "monkey trial," was testimony of that. But this time around, claim Fundamentalists, opponents of the new law are the ones guilty of censorship. When the Arkansas legislature overwhelmingly passed the Balanced Treatment Act last March, the American Civil Liberties Union went on red alert. Though the act explicitly says it is nonreligious, its origins are indisputably Fundamentalist. Such "neutral" bills, requiring that creation science be taught side by side with evolution, have been promoted for years by California's Institute for Creation Research, one of many such groups lobbying against...
This is not exactly a novel scenario; the scarier financial writers have been mulling it over for years. But there is something brave about Rollover It undertakes to explain, in dramatic terms, how the international monetary system functions and to speculate on how a monkey wrench could be inserted into the computerized, satellite-linked works by which currency is instantaneously traded round the world. Someone whose most sophisticated investment was a flyer in 1944 war bonds may not be able fully to assess these maneuvers, but it is nice to be asked...
Proposition 2 1/2--the rash, extreme tax cut approved a year ago by Bay State voters--had thrown yet another monkey wrench in the workings of city government. Fagone and his DPW crews were operating at half speed this weekend, and as a result the city's streets were unnecessarily slick and dangerous, and the city's public schools needlessly closed. And it will be worse next time, for the DPW budget is now drained. "It's going to be an enjoyable winter," Fagone said with a grim chuckle. "From now on, we're just going to watch it fall...
...only thing to go on is the 45-page autobiographical fragment "The Hindsight Saga," in the posthumous opus The Last Laugh which Perelman's publisher and executor have just produced. Concentrating on Perelman's early years in Hollywood, where he worked on the screenplays for the Marx Brother's Monkey Business and Horse Feathers and on a number of other comedies, it reveals a Perelman considerably less impulsive and a bit more socially adept than his fictional alter ego. Beyond this however, The Hindsight Saga offers little. Perelman relates his experiences with a number of the celebrities...