Word: monkeyism
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...Americans), 46 wounded, 126 missing and presumed dead. Along the defense perimeter lay twelve disemboweled children. An American, his body as black and twisted as a burnt match, sprawled among the debris in the Special Forces camp, his dog tags soldered to his bones and his charred pet monkey clinging, even in death, to his back. The Dongxoai church was cluttered with severed heads; bodies of South Vietnamese soldiers used as human shields lay bound and eviscerated...
...Honestly, if one more finky psychiatrist tries to tell us why we do the frug, the monkey, etc., we'll go off our nut. KERRY-JEAN LANDRY PAM GILMORE Gorham...
...this suggests that narcotics workers are face-to-face with a second monkey on the addict's back. Sorrowfully, Brown admits to being stumped on the problem of prying Mom loose. He tried group therapy to get the mothers interested in their sons' problems, admits it was "a disaster-all they did was feel sorry for themselves." Now he is campaigning to have the sons leave home, but he finds Mom just as tough a campaigner. A few weeks ago, one mother searched through more than 50 rooming houses on Manhattan's 14th Street until she turned...
...charades. The dog, for example, is a slow-motion jerk (known in less erudite circles as the bump and grind), which is a slow-motion frug. Add a backstroke arm motion to the frug and you have the swim; add a tree-climbing motion and you have the monkey. Stick your thumbs in your ears and it's the mouse or the mule; up in the air, and it's the hitchhiker?and so on for the woodpecker, Cleopatra, Popeye, Harry James, Frankenstein...
Expanding Volume. Ads seduce the eye and ear everywhere in Asia. They blink in neon from signs that share the skyline with Bangkok's temple spires and from plump helium balloons in the skies over Taipei. Billboards in Rangoon hymn a product called "Monkey Brain Tonic." In Thailand, such popular TV shows as Alfred Hitchcock and The Deputy are often interrupted by commercials that run up to 15 minutes, and many of the country's 80 commercial radio stations carry eight-minute plugs-partly because time sells for as little as $1 a minute...