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Winsome Blonde. Kong, it will be remembered, is a big happy monkey in the jungle. He is a little greedy, always popping people into his mouth like uppers and downers but, in a curious way, human. He falls for a winsome blonde, saves her from a Tyrannosaurus and is brought to the U.S. in pain and chains. Army planes finally cut him down as he makes a last brave stand atop Manhattan's Empire State Building...
...dollar bill. Passing New Yorkers, though, did not seem to notice. "Why should they?" asked Actor Richard Base-hart, who had dressed himself up as George Washington to rehearse a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV special titled Valley Forge. "In New York you can walk around in a monkey suit and people just say, 'Oh, there's another...
...mind is a drunken monkey," says Richard Albert, a former associate of Timothy Leary and now known as Baba Ram Dass. Goodman, his skepticism crumbling, subjects his mind to all sorts of sobering-up exercises: Transcendental Meditation, sensory deprivation and "rolfing," a painful massage that seems to have been developed during a subway rush hour. The purpose of these activities is to shut out the world, to listen to the wisdom of one's body Goodman finds that such pursuits are surprisingly effective-although success can be full of paradox. "Concentration is effortless effort, is not trying, " claims...
...show's bitter but sometimes precious humor. The play is full of disturbed men who can't decide what role to play, who can't tell, as Thurber never could, whether they're coming or going. A would-be wife murderer cowers when she threatens him with a monkey wrench. Walter Mitty fantasizes that he is Bogart, Patton, and Dr. Christian Barnard, but his wife can't seem to take him seriously. Thurber himself appears, his world collapsing around him because, as usual, his publishers can't figure out where he lives among all his previous and present addresses...
Yale last year had one of its finest teams ever, and by right should have been 9-0 had not an underdog Harvard team thrown a monkey wrench into the Elis' dreams...