Word: monkeyism
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...fashion. For example, the Parisian hoodlums of that era - known as Apaches - wore silk foulards and, writes Savage, "an air of bourgeois hauteur." In England's inner cities, where there were regular pitched battles between gangs - Birmingham's Peaky Blinders, Liverpool's High Rip or the Monkey's Parade from London's East End - the look was edgier. A youth worker in the 1890s noted that a proper Manchester "scuttler" could be identified by a loose white scarf, plastered-down hair, bell-bottom trousers and a girlfriend who "commonly wore clogs and a shawl and a skirt with vertical stripes...
...wouldn’t expect a monkey to understand calculus,” Wang points out. A funny parallel to our primate friends, yet still, something that points to an evolutionary growth in the comprehension of advanced conceptual ideas...
Prolific actor and activist Ed Asner is accustomed to speaking his mind.Asner recently played the role of William Jennings Bryan in Peter Goodchild’s “The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial,” which was hosted by the Institute of Politics on Monday night. Perhaps best known as Lou Grant on the “Mary Tyler Moore Show,” Asner has earned seven Emmys, more than any other male actor. Produced by L.A. Theatre Works under the direction of Susan Albert Loewenberg, “Monkey Trial” is adapted from...
...pictures of "Comrade" Robert Gabriel Mugabe. He looks down from framed photographs in every store, gas station and government office, a small man in gold glasses. When I landed in Zimbabwe, he was front-page news in every newspaper, railing against the West, which could "go hang" for plotting "monkey business" against his country, and members of the opposition, who "will get bashed." A few weeks earlier, I caught a television interview on his 83rd birthday. "Some people say I am a dictator," he said at his 25-bedroom villa in the capital, Harare, complete with Italian-marble bathrooms...
...When we were little, he’d wake up at like 5 a.m. and run down the halls screaming as loud as he could,” she says. “He was always obnoxious and sounding like a monkey or something...