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...rest of the day goes nicely. dinner is fine. Each of us sits in the mirrored and chandeliered dining ball eating turkey with a fat labrador retriever on each knee. Afterward, we search the house where we located among other things, a monkey in the laundry room, a warehouse of toys in the basement, an imitation jade statue of the grandfather as Buddha, and the pictures of generals and presidents on the walls. Each of his last 5 sons is named after a different 5-star general who also serves as a godfather. In one of the photographs Eisenhower sits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barkers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...private life was, however, grim. Her husband, an auto-body repairman she married at 18, continually slapped her around and subjected her to agonizing sexual abuse. Says Mrs. Patri's attorney, Alan Eisenberg: "He apparently dreamed up his own sexual circus and she was the ring monkey." But even after learning last year that Patri was molesting their twelve-year-old daughter, Jennifer failed to leave him or notify the authorities. She now says: "I felt dutybound to my marriage vows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Killing Excuse | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Other researchers were adding to the evolutionary mosaic. In 1969, after re-evaluating the fragmentary remains of a monkey-size creature called Ramapithecus ?found in India's Siwalik Hills and first described by Yale Paleontologist G.E. Lewis is in 1934?Elwyn Simons, then at Yale, and his former student David Pilbeam became convinced that this creature too was an ancestor. They noted that his teeth were far closer to those of other hominids (manlike creatures) than to those of apes. Indeed, says Simons, 47, who now heads the Duke University Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puzzling Out Man's Ascent | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni happily gorged himself in La Grande Bouffe, Italian Director Marco Ferreri's savage comedy about four men who eat themselves to death. A glutton for punishment, Mastroianni has been lured back for another Ferreri satire. Called Bye Bye Monkey!, it is about an aging, asthmatic gardener who wanders down to a dump in a nameless large city and finds the remains of a movie monster named Macho Kong (no kin to King Kong). Hearing a whimpering sound within the monster's body, Marcello the gardener pulls out a baby chimpanzee, whom he treats like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...female monkey 3 gin fizzes and she ran up and down a rope ladder, and the Clever girl was christened by a Russian princess I should like to have violated and there were strawberry gin fizzes and drunken dancing and I was fortunate to get home...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Sherry and Schopenhauer | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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