Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large wall sign advertising PIERCE BROTHERS/ FUNERAL PARKING ONLY/ALL OTHERS WILL BE TOWED AWAY AT OWNER'S EXPENSE, and a big old copper shoeshine stand. Gould has resolved to amass a private collection of film classics, but his only acquisition thus far is a dubious item called The Monkey, which he unreels for son Jason. Also militating against the success of the Gould film library is the fact that its founder and chief benefactor becomes easily intimidated by the intricacies of threading the movie projector...
...spinning Explorer satellite as its payload. The booster was as American as Werner von Braun, but it did not explode and the race to the moon was on. The Russians became nasty and secretive. They sent up a dog which died in space. The Americans sent up a monkey which lived. Yuri Gagarin (now dead) circled the world. Gus Grissom (now dead) let his capsule sink in the Atlantic. The fair-haired boy, John Glenn, was such a good astronaut that he went into politics and slipped in a bathtub...
...MASH, he is again deliberately trying to stir his audience. In one vignette, a curmudgeonly lady remarks that upon her death, she wants her 35 dogs "quietly put to sleep." Unfortunately, one of the film's strongest scenes, depicting two bachelor roommates breakfasting with their pet monkey, has been edited...
When these same construction workers try to bury a monkey wrench in some peacenik's head, they're trying to expel some frustrated sexual energy, and it comes out in pure class hatred. They see an affluent generation of college kids who never had to make any money on their own, and whose education, in fact, the workers themselves are paying for. They see these kids screaming about how hard life is, and the workers are furious. As far as they can tell, they certainly wouldn't be where they are now if they had had a chance...
...election swung on rice-bowl issues and the fact that thousands of 18-year-olds were voting for the first time. Predicting that the youths would flock to Sirimavo's leftist banner, one Senanayake supporter complained that giving them the vote was "like giving a monkey a knife to cut its own throat." Senanayake barely retained his own seat. His party's representation in Parliament fell from 71 to 17. With her own party holding an absolute majority and her two Communist-coalition partners winning 25 seats-highest in their histories -Mrs. Bandaranaike can carry out almost...