Word: monkeyism
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...Monkey Brigade. Judged by that criterion, Indira bodes well indeed for India. "My public life," she declares, "began when I was three." Her mother, a frail Kashmiri, was a Congress Party leader in Indira's native city, Allahabad. Father was heir apparent to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the independence movement. Grandfather was a wealthy lawyer and an early member of the Congress movement. The Nehrus' mansion was a center for illegal Congress Party gatherings. Recalls Indira: "The most important meetings were on our lawn." Reprisals by India's British rulers were harsh, and often Indira watched one or both...
...hardly a fresh Wind. The fictionalized treatment of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" was a 1955 play; the 1960 movie version has been run and rerun on television. But despite the script's many previous lives, Schaefer, employing Ed Begley and Melvyn Douglas from the Broadway cast, managed to make this reincarnation seem new and important...
...whisky and steak poured into the cavernous complex even as delegates and foreign ministers from 45 nations made their reservations to depart. The club's living quarters were not even filled; most diplomats preferred the bustling Aletti Hotel downtown, or the St. George, where the frug and the monkey were nightly attractions. By midweek everyone was gone. With the fading of jet contrails heading toward Bangkok and Baghdad, Accra and Ankara, the spirit of Bandung II passed into history...
Harvard had two animal men on the scene by 10 a.m. They were joined at noon by three specializing from the Animal Rescue League, who brought an impressive impressive arsenal of equipment including large, long-handled nets and poles with drop-over-the-head leashes. The last monkey was finally netted at 8 p.m. from his headquarters on a corner rafter...
...Edgar Rice Burroughs hero. "They like to think of their new Tarzan as 'the James Bond of the Jungle,'" she complains, "but Bond would have known what to do with a blonde on a moonlit night on a tropical river. Tarzan just cuddles up to his monkey." Murray, who plays a riverboat captain, also feels miscast in this, his first big Hollywood role. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing here," he moans. "I have to take a tranquilizer even to feed my goldfish, and in this movie...