Word: simians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Simian Line. What Dr. Achs and other medical "palmists" look for is half a dozen common abnormalities. A single deep crease, instead of two separated lines, from the base of the index finger to the base of the pinkie is known as a "simian line" (see diagram). It occurs with many disorders including mongolism and some rubella (German measles) defects. Also unusual is a radial loop pattern pointing toward the thumb in the ridges of any finger other than the index...
...WOMAN. A girl who looks simian becomes a meal ticket for the con man who exploits her misfortune in this ferociously funny Italian comedy about the beastliness of Homo sapiens...
...Gibraltar will be British just as long as it is inhabited by the famed Barbary apes that somehow found their way there from Morocco. In 1941, after Hitler promised to deliver the Rock to Franco in return for Spain's wartime support, word reached Winston Churchill that the simian population was dangerously depleted. The Prime Minister cabled back: STRENGTH OF ROCK APE PACK TO BE KEPT UP AT ALL COST. It was - and the cost was high indeed. For every ape smuggled onto the Rock by Franco's soldiery, the British handed over a case of precious Scotch...