Word: monkeyism
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...Seattle last week, 640 leading citizens sat down to feast on mandarin chicken, pineapple chicken, Cantonese beef, steamed rice in lotus leaf, jai choy and other triumphs of Chinese cuisine. Occasion for the feast: New Year's celebration of the Chinese year 4654-the Year of the Monkey. It was also the 40th anniversary of Seattle's China Club, a remarkable example of the American penchant for voluntarily organizing for a high purpose-in this case for Sino-American friendship...
...that papa's revenge plot isn't clever; it's that Playwright Williams is so much cleverer throwing monkey wrenches into it. What with the wrong person turning up at the right moment, or the right person at the wrong one, or somebody showing funk or something important disappearing, there is endless gang-aft-agleying, and Someone Waiting seems more an obstacle race than a thrill er. Never believable, in time it becomes something of a bore, and though Leo G. Carroll plays the father with his usual deftness, it is on the audience that he really...
...Jaguar & Monkey. The fact seems to be that Buffet found his style early and stuck with it. Good fortune, in return, stayed with Buffet. His canvases have soared from $50 to a top $10,000 for the largest oils, prices exceeded today only by such giants as Picasso, Braque and Rouault. He gets what he wants, whatever the cost. "You must feed your best horse plenty of oats if you want him to run fast," explained Gallery Owner Emanuel David...
Following a kidnapping by M.I.T. students of the Smoker's star, Jack Benny's Rochester, the class of '43 awaited a "mystery woman." The "mystery woman's" name, Ann Sheridan, was not revealed until the last day. Ann Sheridan, however, turned out to be a monkey. Dressed in sunglasses, Ann skated around the stage once, but became frightened by the noise and fled...
This man with the monkey of addiction is Frankie Machine, a professional poker dealer who, in a federal institution, has already won a partial victory over the habit. When he comes home, however, his determination to leave the cards and the heroin and to find a job as a drummer soon breaks again. In just a few days, a lying and rapacious wife, a preying dope peddler, and his own weakness send Frankie screaming to a locked room, to break the habit once more...