Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hitchcock's Deceit. She has not sought out safe, sympathetic parts. She has played the teasing Faye Greener in The Day of the Locust, the honky-tonk waitress Rayette Dipesto in Five Easy Pieces, the low-down and libidinous Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby, and the victimized Monkey in Portnoy's Complaint. Right now she is within hailing distance of being what she calls "a first-rank star...
Instead, she likes to discuss "Myrtle's life force" or "Monkey's élan." In much the same way, she will talk about "the essences" of friends or colleagues. She feels that she has learned much from Scientology, Ex-Science Fiction Writer L. Ron Hubbard's free-floating religion. Black keeps an E-Meter, which indicates emotionally charged words, close at hand. It measures "biofeedback emotional response," she says. "Scientology is a group of knowledge to handle and get rid of inexplicable behavior. It has cleared my mind...
...Monkey Business, Friday and Saturday...
...Monkey Business. It's gotten so that I don't like to watch the Marx Brothers M-G-M extravaganzas anymore, with their water-ballets and cupie-doll tenor heroes thrown in among the more or less emasculated brothers. So Monkey Business from the tacky Paramount days comes as blessed relief, reaffirmation and so on. It is wonderful. This is the one where Groucho, Chico and most importantly Harpo all do imitations of Maurice Chevalier singing "Eef a Nightengale Cood Sin Lak You" and where Grouch announces that "love goes out the door when money comes innuendo". The script...
...back of the room to open a certain window, you can hear the cars honking on Somerset Street. The press has responded dutifully to this long list of prosaic particulars, by failing to come up with a name for the trial in the tradition of either the "Scopes Monkey Trial" or the trial of the "Chicago Seven...