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...built in West Virginia by members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, better known as Hare Krishnas. The journalist-authors, John Hubner of the San Jose Mercury News and Lindsey Gruson of the New York Times, who teamed up for the piece, have apparently found the association rewarding. Monkey on a Stick is their expanded, though not necessarily deepened, account of the Hindu religious movement that started in 1965 as a storefront attraction in Manhattan's East Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Hustle, Bad Karma MONKEY ON A STICK | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

PERFORMANCE Space Space Performance (formerly Performance Space Six), the group that produced the Sea Monkey's Sideshow multi-media extravaganza last May at the Carpenter Center, is behind this event, which features simultaneous acts of creativity by musicians, fencers, painters and storyteller Brother Blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stage Door | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

Concluding that, "If LoPresti is a progressive, I'm a monkey's uncle," Gerstell charged that LoPresti had misrepresented his State Senate record to win over liberal voters and knock her out of the race and then switched back towards the right...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: LoPresti to Face Travaglini | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

...MONKEY SHINES. Man meets capuchin monkey; monkey falls for man; monkey goes bananas. George A. Romero's deft thriller is the best ape movie since the 1933 King Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Aug. 22, 1988 | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

True to the genre, Romero runs clever twists on mandatory horror-movie citations like the Psycho shower sequence (Mrs. Bates is a monkey) and The Old Dark House climax (Ella pulls the power switch). And at the end, Monkey Shines soars into that rarefied sci-fi air where melodrama meets metaphor. Romero, best known for Night of the Living Dead 20 years ago, has grown up here, grown past Hitchcock homages to fix on the war of mind and body that everyone ceaselessly wages. While he's at it, he has made the smartest dark fantasy since David Cronenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Going Ape MONKEY SHINES | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

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