Word: simianly
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...however, thinking about the subject of the play, which is a simplistic attack on American blood lust. Ranchman, played with great simian gusto by William Devane, is an accused rapist in police custody. A howling mob, which seems largely composed of teenyboppers, demonstrates throughout-half for him and half against him. A ratty prosecuting attorney introduces highly clinical and irrelevant evidence against him; the alleged rape victims-two women, a young girl and a boy-seem to have enjoyed every minute of the experience...
...Simian Crease. Countless babies are born with genetic heart defects and in many of these cases the genetic defect has visible, external effects as well as internal ones. The most obvious example: mongolism, technically known as Down's syndrome, in which there may be heart defects along with abnormalities of the hands-flabbiness, thickness, a short fifth finger and a "simian crease" across the palm. Several other genetic, chromosomally determined defects have comparable telltale hand signs...
...Reynolds urges that Man should provide a habitat For his poor hairy dumb relations, A sort of ape's United Nations. The state of Florida might serve As one great simian preserve, Where the whole tribe would perhaps thrive, Or just contrive to stay alive. And in this tax-free paradise Who knows, the ape might
...three principals, only Elaine May, as the wife, is well cast, but she is pitching in a game with no catchers. Peter Falk is too simian and heavy for the popinjay part of her wayward husband, and as a Jewish urban type, Jack Lemmon is frantic without being at all funny. Luv is too good a comedy to die this way; people who have never seen it will do better to find a road company of the play...
...Morrises acknowledge sadly that simian acuity makes an ideal subject for laboratory experiment, but they rather disapprove of the whole business. In one case, two rhesus monkeys were strapped into adjoining cubicles and subjected to electric shock. One of them, designated the Executive Monkey, could stop the shocks by pulling a lever, which he was required to do for hours on end. The other soon learned that his control was a dummy lever, and lost all interest...