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...Hollywood studio. Sally, who belongs to a local animal trainer, has a rudimentary understanding of human language, so she was able to follow simple verbal commands like "Sit." The problem, though, was getting her to remain still for several minutes at a time. She would squirm, twitch and monkey around with the photographic equipment. The crew used grapes, apples, carrots, raisins and even bananas as bribes to get Sally to cooperate. Thirteen hours later, Balog had all the pictures he needed...
...example, Sandra Cisnero's" The Monkey Garden" deals with the discovery of a sexuality--an unusual choice for an author who more consistently deals with issues of race and ethnicity. Growing Up Latino also leaves out some influential writers. Gloria Anzaldua is the only established lesbian writer included here, the very out and outspoken Cherrie Moraga and Sheila Ortiz-Taylor are omitted. This glaring oversight neglects one of the most significant strains in contemporary Latino literature...
...land of ignorance, the mendacious will flourish. Democracy's natural selection has left the realm of American politics a suitable habitat only for prevaricators, causists, and scoundrels. Now more than ever democracy is, as H.L. Mencken put it, "the art of running the zoo from the monkey cage...
...little economics in the first 11 pages. The President talked through a passage about having to play the hand you're dealt after 20 years of exploding debt. "A big part of the job," says Begala, "is being able to take dictation. I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder...
Ruprecht reports the monkey model along with colleagues from Brigham & Women's Hospital, Worcester's TSI Mason laboratories, and Tufts University in the current issue of the Jurnal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome...