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...more information about the family that hosted me, please turn to our article, "The Creature Came in From the Countryside," on page 27. See them also on the third floor of the Museum of Fine Arts, where they will replace last month's exhibit of delightful monkey twins wearing dresses...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: My Country Tis of Tree | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...Woman of the Year: 3:45, 7:55; Adam's Rib: 5:50, 9:55. Mon and Tue: You Can't Take it With You: 3:30, 7:55; The Man Who Came to Dinner: 5:50, 10:00. Wed: I Was a Male War Bride: 4, 7:50; Monkey Business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: September 26--October 2 | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...Pride of North Miami bumbled his way to a 22-22 year, an even .500. If I remember my probability correctly, that is just about as well as any other monkey might do given a series of binary choices...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Money for Nothing | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

FLUSHING MEADOW, New York -- Ivan Lendl finally got the monkey off his back...

Author: By John Rosenthal, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Lendl Whips McEnroe To Capture Open Title | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...structure with Hispanicized words borrowed from English ("Donde esta el vacuum cleaner?"). The confluence of the two languages is also producing new verb forms that are not found in any textbook. "Quieres monkear?" is one way of saying "Want to hang out?" Borrowed from the slang infinitive "to monkey around," the Spanglish verb monkear is used in the same way as truckear, which refers to working around trucks, shopear (i.e., at the market) and mopear (the kitchen floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Donde Esta el VACUUM CLEANER? | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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