Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press, predictably, had a field day. SUNSHINE PRINCESS is A STUNNER, bleated the London Evening News. MY PRINCESS, bannered the Daily Express possessively. Television built up to the big event with all the suspense of a moon shot. From fond accounts of Anne's girlhood visit to a monkey farm in Malta to interviews with the sexton who would ring the church bell in Mark's home town of Great Somerford, no detail seemed too trivial to mention...
Acid Bath. Technological superiority is as important in drag racing as it is in the nuclear arms race. In fact, Bill Jenkins' success results less from his skill as a driver ("A monkey can drive one of these things down a straight track," he says) than from his knack as an engineer. A farm boy from Downingtown, Pa., he dropped out of Cornell University's engineering school in 1953 after his father died. He made his living for several years building engines and preparing race cars for competition, before deciding in 1965 to drive them himself in order...
...times a dizzying mix of dance, music, mime, processionals, tapestried tableaux and hilarious acrobatics. Banners are everywhere, signifying anything from magic power to the number of troops in a general's army. Nothing sums up these diverse elements better than the Taiwan company's version of The Monkey King, which tells the story of a cleric's disciple who drinks too much, fights too much, but does a lot of good and in the end becomes a Buddhist. Perhaps China's most popular legendary hero, the Monkey King is a sort of 16th century superman...
Almost all of the 579 animals that live on the Durrell preserve are in danger of extinction and are treated accordingly. A recently arrived spider monkey that refused to eat ("Apes are the hypochondriacs of the animal world") was finally coaxed into feasting on smoked cod roe. A sulking capybara, the world's largest rodent, was found to be partial to spaghetti. "An animal likes variety just as we do," says Durrell, a skilled cook. "If you give it a tomato day after day, it goes mad. It may want a bloody watermelon for a change...
...genteel poverty when he moved from draper's assistant to scholarship student at London University in 1884. There he came under the lasting influence of Darwin's disciple, T.E. Huxley. It is not hard to imagine how Wells would be impressed by a theory that made the monkey the common ancestor of kings and cockneys. He was soon mixing Darwinian science and the social philosophy of Herbert Spencer in articles and stories that found ready outlets in Grub Street periodicals...