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...varied as Kenya itself. Native chieftains in python-skin and ostrich-feather robes, Indian women hi flowing, pastel-shaded saris, black and white Kenyans in khaki safari outfits or pinstripe suits crowded around the dais in Nairobi's Uhuru (freedom in Swahili) Park. Hundreds of tribal dancers in monkey-skin skirts and black feather headdresses swayed rhythmically, rattling anklets made of Coca-Cola bottletops and ululating cries of praise. Naval battalions boomed out a 21-gun salute, and there was an ear-cracking, low-flying aeronautics display by fighters of the Kenya air force. At the center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: A New Father | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...feel like a monkey fuckin' a football," Lee said after sitting another night in the bullpen watching the waning moments of the 1978 season. "That guy [Zimmer] hates me. He just doesn't like me. And I don't like him. He's an asshole. I just can't tell you in public some of the things he's said to me, and then he goes out and tells everybody that he doesn't have anything against...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: HEROES and FOOLS | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...before the trial begins, the experimental plan must be filed for approval with the Food and Drug Administration, whose commissioner, Donald Kennedy, has in the past called Laetrile a "fraud" and "useless." Nevertheless Kennedy too would doubtless like the Laetrile monkey off his back, and he is expected to approve the plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Apricot Power | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

While studying at the London School of Economics, Kenyatta wrote Facing Mount Kenya, describing the life and customs of the Kikuyu in a golden, pre-European past. The book contained a photograph of a bearded Kenyatta carrying a spear and wearing a blue monkey cloak slung over his shoulder?all fabricated to make him look more like a tribal elder than a Western student. He was, as British Author Elspeth Huxley once observed, "a showman to his fingertips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Old Man Dies at Last | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...aged man are not necessarily funny. Nor is the scene in which a couple dickers with a sleazy film producer over a role in a pornographic film. As the scene unfolds, it becomes clear that the female in the dirty movie will have to, er, "do it with a monkey." But surprise, kids, the couple agrees to the contract, and the twist is revealed; the woman won't be in the film, rather, the actress will be their ten-year-old daughter. You could split your sides laughing, but you probably...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Missing the Mark, Italian Style | 8/15/1978 | See Source »

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