Word: simians
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...audience was treated to a screening of a new IMAX film called Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzee, starring the primatolgist and her simian friends, and gave a standing ovation at the presentation of the award—a marble dove so heavy that Goodall couldn’t hold it by herself...
...simian star Koko, a lowland gorilla who quite famously speaks sign language and understands spoken English, is already a star in print with, among other works, the young-adult favorite Koko’s Kitten and the primatologist favorite “Mirror Behavior and Self-Concept in the Lowland Gorilla.” Now she’s ready to conquer the pop music world with her latest release Fine Animal Gorilla, a benefit CD for The Gorilla Foundation...
...large pair of ears on the President. Once that’s done, it’s time to contort his face into a vacuous expression, usually some combination of raised eyebrows, yawning mouth, and furrowed brow. And now that George W. has been transformed into Curious George, the simian storybook character, it is essential to insult his intelligence. Never mind that none of this has to do with the war in Iraq, the rape of the environment or the tax-cut for the rich. Obviously, George W. Bush disagrees with his critics because he is stupid and they?...
...album is its consistency of style. The rhythms remain resolutely rocksteady and the basslines low and simple—a sharp contrast to the wealth of styles that abounded on the original album. But then, after the colossal success of the earlier album, the Gorillaz and their astro-simian buddies are content to take a less ambitious approach this time around. I defy anyone to not feel the stress massaged out of the their spines by the floor-shaking bass and cheerful, air-headed vocals...
...Kiss. "I liked them right off," says Oyamada, 33. "They all looked like manga monsters to me." That initiation into the concept of rock 'n' roll as fantasy would be the germination of Oyamada's own career. (He acquired his musical pseudonym, Cornelius, from the name of a friendly simian in the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes.) But instead of platform leather boots, pancake makeup and pyrotechnic stage shows, Oyamada would go on to vent his wild side through his uninhibited, almost childlike sonic stylings. This obsessive fascination with music as an aural portal to his (and our) more...