Word: monkeyism
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...Reagan conservatism. For one thing, the state of Tennessee has switched sides. In 1925 the state prosecuted Scopes; today the Tennessee advocate general is backing the school board against Frost. For the most part, the local community has been unreceptive to the Fundamentalists' claims. No matter which way the monkey trial of the 1980s comes out, the case has already demonstrated that history never does quite repeat itself...
There are two teams that would like to throw a monkey wrench into my revenge plans: the New York Mets and the New York Yankees, who would like to make it into a subway series...
...delight. Wunderkammern--literally, chambers of astonishment--were an embellishment of European collections from the 16th century onward. They were anthologies of real and artificial oddities, things astonishing by their exoticism or the intricacy of their making--or outright fakes, like a dead mermaid fashioned from dried fish and monkey skin. Their cabinets were stuffed with baroque pearls, narwhal tusks, mandrake roots and fossils. The cult of the Wunderkammer rose where the demonic or angelic world view of the Middle Ages shifted into the classifying rationalism of the Enlightenment. "Those are pearls that were his eyes/ Nothing of him that doth...
...mail!" Schlock: Gatorland Zoo with its Gator Jumparoo show, in which thousand-pound alligators lurch out of the water to snap their jaws around dead chickens suspended from a wire. For connoisseurs of arcane Americana, the Orlando area also offers an Alligatorland Safari Zoo (feed the animals with Purina Monkey Chow), a Reptile World Serpentarium ("Time your visit to be present during one of our three daily venom programs") and an Elvis Presley Museum, with displays of Elvis' high school yearbook (his major was shop), a portrait of Jesus that Elvis gave his parents when...
...much larger papers. During the Mexican War, the Sun used a string of riders to bring the latest dispatches to Baltimore on horseback, scooping its competitors and even the White House. In 1925 the Sun assigned H.L. Mencken to write his famous series of articles on the historic Tennessee "monkey trial" of John Scopes, who stood accused of teaching evolution in public classrooms. Under the leadership of Reg Murphy, who has been publisher since 1981, the Sun has maintained a reputation for excellence. Last year its reporters won two Pulitzer Prizes...