Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Would the author of His Monkey Wife (1930) and Fancies and Good-nights (1951) care to work on the film on location? Clearly he would, but it is easier to return to fantasy. "That would depend on how close to hell they go," he says...
...communicate regularly with the President," he said. "I expect to see him daily. It won't bother me at all to tell him something is a bad idea. I'm not around this town to win games. I've criticized the phony people who monkey around with status games...
Dubbed the "plumbers" because of their ostensible job of plugging up new leaks from the White House, these free agents applied their monkey wrenches to the Bill of Rights. At various times, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy directed Cuban provocateurs to beat up Daniel Ellsberg, organized the burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office and engineered the break-in of the Democratic Party headquarters...
...Leandro is a pianistic sensation who has been applauded wildly from London to Lugano. Just as Rubinstein was taken to Joachim, so young Aconcha was taken to the venerable Rubinstein in 1970 at his vacation villa in Marbella, Spain. "Instead of hanging about the piano like a little monkey," chuckled Rubinstein shortly thereafter, "he ran about the house and hurtled through the garden." When the boy finally sat down to play, "not one note was missing. I was four when I started to play and he was three, but even at the age of eight I did not play...
...meat of anything that ran or crawled-snake, dog, tiger, rat, anteater. A delicacy was elephant blood soup. "Jungle meat can be real good," says Utecht. "One day I tried to cut into a ball of meat. It suddenly spread out, forming a hand. It was a monkey's hand...