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SUCH incidents leave one with the troubling doubt: Was the anti-media fervor of silber followers based on a rational and well-considered critique of campaign coverage? Or was it, instead, an unthinking monkey-see-monkey-do mimicking of Silber's anti-press tirades...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Grading Silber and the Media | 11/10/1990 | See Source »

...date and a middle aged woman (Thompson) about to embark on her first blind date since her divorce is funny and touching. In the second act is "Honeypot," a hilarious satire of the ridiculous sexual innuendo prevalent in early blues. Harad beautifully belts out lines such as "Put your monkey wrench in my sugar bowl," while Salie, as the disapproving psychiatrist, glowers. Even if one scene fails to entertain, no skit last longer than four or five minutes. The show is nothing if not fast-moving...

Author: By Elijah T. Siegler, | Title: Ex Show Safe but Satisfying | 11/2/1990 | See Source »

...Princeton definitely was a significant win," Caples said. "We got the monkey off our back...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Stickwomen Break Back Into National Rankings | 10/25/1990 | See Source »

...monkey business started back in 1973 when Charles River Laboratories set up a breeding colony of rhesus monkeys on an island in the Florida Keys. Since then the primates have gone ape, swelling in numbers to more than 4,000, fouling the water and destroying endangered mangrove trees on state-owned land. Despite protests from environmentalists and nearby property owners, Bausch & Lomb Inc., which bought the colony in a package deal in 1984, refused to relocate it. Then in May the state department of natural resources quietly agreed to a settlement in which Bausch & Lomb would be allowed to phase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: A Ruckus over Rhesus | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...tonight's ECAC first-round playoff battle in Ithaca, N.Y., the Cornell men's hockey team will be fighting to get the monkey off its back...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Big Red Obstacle Blocks Icemen's Path | 3/2/1990 | See Source »

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