Word: monkeyism
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...Jensen maintains a group marriage menage. His marriage partners are Carlotta, Emery, Marian, and Clancy. Most often Jensen is paired off with Carlotta, and Emery with Marian. At odd times, when he is lonely, both Carlotta and Marian will pair off with Clancy. They have all studied the howling monkey society and they like what they have learned...
...sauce printemps and shad roe mousse Pocohontas. Plot It Yourself (1959) offers a revealing satire of the publishing industry as Wolfe uses literary detection to expose a plagiarist-killer. Triple Jeopardy (1952) is a collection of three taut novellas, of which the most intriguing is The Squirt and the Monkey, in which Wolfe's only witness to a murder is a monkey...
Luis V. Melendez, research associate in Bacteriology and Immunology and head of the research team, said that this is the first time scientists have located and identified such a virus. He said the experiment, which involved injecting a virus extracted from one monkey into another, could "eventually bring about a solution to the cancer problem...
...incident in which a Jewish businessman insists that the theme from Exodus be pumped into an operating room "so everyone should know what religion he is." Still, there are many spots where Roth omits scenes that beg to be told. We see Portnoy berate a girl called The Monkey when she dresses up like a whore for a party at Mayor Lindsay's, but, unfortunately, we don't get to see the party itself...
...using the psychoanalytic monologue as a literary device, Roth has achieved an individuality of tone and gesture and a retrieval of detail that transform his characters into super-stereotypes, well suited for this age of exaggeration. Sophie and Jack Portnoy are pop Jewish parents; the Monkey is the apotheosis of the contemporary Id Girl; and Portnoy embodies not only the tics of a man trying to disentangle himself from his background, but also the latent fear of the liberal humanist that he may find himself out. It is no small concern to the Assistant Commissioner of Human Opportunity, champion...