Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what she has done for the past three years in the city school system, in which, she told the committee, drug users and pushers operate freely. Asked what could be done about the problems. Miss Conlon replied: "Show these kids that you're going to stand for no monkey business, and they're going to straighten up and fly right...
...cars, presumably including engine tune-ups and replacement of points and plugs. Since the tests are specifically designed to measure emissions from cars that have been kept in less than topnotch condition-as will often happen when they get into buyers' hands-the unscheduled repair work threw a monkey wrench into Ford's results. Earlier the company had quietly withdrawn its application for engine approval from the Environmental Protection Agency, and last week it announced that four testing employees were being "reassigned." Growled an angry Henry Ford II: "It is fair to say we are in one hell...
...LITERARY MARKET place these days seems totally absorbed in the trappings of art rather than art itself. The artist has been plugged into The American Hype Machine. He is wired, plugged in, and variously tapped to perform on the monkey circuit of talk shows, academic tea parties, State Department romps abroad, and readings...
...Misanthrope was written at the time when Louis XIV had gathered the entire French aristocracy in his monkey court at Versailles to gibber and not at each other and indulge in gratuitous palace intrigues while he ran the country with a free hand. Although the setting is not Versailles, the characters in the play are all part of this glittering, shallow society, where conventions enforce a routine dishonesty, friendship and courting are reduced to foppish displays, and love is overwhelmed with calculation. In this setting we meet Alceste, the misanthrope, who is repelled by all the vanity and hypocrisy...
...play progresses. The stay of the show is Ken Demsky as Acaste, the foppish rival for Celimene's hand. Kathy Clinton, who does a good overall job of direction, has wisely ignored Richard Wilbur's advice in his play Acaste as blatantly epicene. His waving handkerchief, stacatto monkey laugh, and feigned expression are the comic highlight of the evening...