Word: orangutan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...view of the learning capacity shown by many gorillas and other great apes, why not specially taped programs for them, such as sign-language classes? There is an orangutan in our Washington zoo who is so bored she is reduced to just watching the people. I'm sure she would love good TV programs...
...chore to figure out who is punching whom, not to mention why. For punctuation, there are running gags. Ruth Gordon pops up, without warning or justification, to do her foul-mouthed-old-lady routine; the Gray Panthers would be well advised to have an injunction slapped on her. An orangutan called Clyde does cute monkeyshines that recall the heyday of Jack Lescoulie and J. Fred Muggs on the Today show. Sondra Locke, a pretty good actress and an Eastwood protégée, comes on to sing the obligatory country-and-western songs in a modified screech...
Brass Plaque. Kissinger's own office is roomy but still bare. The only decoration-a farewell gift from the State Department's Policy Planning Staff-is a poster of a glowering orangutan, captioned: IF I WANT YOUR OPINION, I'LL BEAT IT OUT OF YOU. At the end of a small conference table is Kissinger's brown leather Cabinet chair with a brass plaque affixed to the back that reads...
...little to do but flutter her graceful arms and look demure. The only multidimensional character is Ivan, a role danced at the premiere by Yuri Vladimirov. An extraordinarily lithe actor with a frazzled mane and long simian arms, Vladimirov in his mad scenes looked oddly like a bemused orangutan who had suddenly been set loose from a zoo. That effect was heightened in the ballet's unintentionally ludicrous climax, when the paranoid Czar, hopelessly entangled among bell ropes, dangles above a crowd of foot-stomping peasants...
...genius of Watson. Because of preposterous insertions, like this pun: "You've a real gift for telling a tale, Watson, and a flair for titles, too, I'll be bound," or the following canard: "On that previous occasion Holmes wished to employ Toby in order to trace an orangutan through the sewers of Marseille," one comes to rue moribund Watson's addled state or to suspect the young Meyer of a deceitful forgery...