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...surprisingly, Levi the scientist is fascinated by work and variety, a curiosity he shares with Libertino Faussone, the main storyteller of The Monkey's Wrench. "The world is beautiful because it's all different," says ! Faussone, an itinerant rigger who has worked on construction jobs all over the world. He is a fiction, says Levi, but authentic, a composite of workmen the author has known. The rigger's tales too have the pitch of stretched truths. On an eight-story tower, a mystery man collects dust that he claims comes from the stars. Faussone tells...
...already enthusiastic; labs in the U.S., Europe and Asia, as well as several biotechnology companies, have requested samples of the tailored gene containing the firefly-virus DNA for use in their own research. Another UCSD team has taken this technique a step further, transferring the luciferase gene into monkey cells growing in laboratory culture...
...tough little monkey," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "He gets in the corners, and he has some skill, too. He works. He's a good skater. He even passes well. He complements the other two very well...
...Harvey Allen) leans across the restaurant table and confides that the reason for her amazing psychic powers is that she was born with a tail. Yes! Her mamma had it surgically removed and kept it in the medicine cabinet, "right between the 4-Way Cold Tablets and the monkey blood." Which is about where, in the cinematic scheme of things, True Stories fits. Right between a 4-H rally and the Monkees' Head. Between Dallas and Paris, Texas. Between Charles Kuralt and Fellini. Between David Letterman and David Lynch. Between everything you forgot about rock movies and nothing you quite...
There were more than a few moments of contentment. Despite their difficulties, the Perelmans remained married for 40 years, until Laura's death in 1970. During that period, S.J. contributed to two of the wildest Marx Brothers films, Horse Feathers and Monkey Business, and he became lionized in Britain and the U.S. as the reigning master of the comic essay...