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Have you ever heard a really good song on the radio, started to jam and then realized that your sad interpretation of the monkey could do no justice to the music? At last weekend's Mainly Jazz recital the dancers did what all of us wish we could do--dance the way the music intended us to dance...
Embarrassed yet? They said technology would simplify your life, and you believed them. Now your creditors can track you down six ways in a minute, and your boss owns you round the clock. You're a monkey on a chain...
...filmed with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner five years later. So who needs another King and I movie? Kids, apparently. So here is an animated feature that expands and dumbs down the story. There's some kung fu, a Jafar-style villain with satanic powers, a cartoon menagerie (funny monkey, majestic leopard, etc.), and lame comedy with a crudely drawn, Buddha-shaped fall guy. It's all needless--and harmless. But even with pretty, painterly backgrounds and the eternal lilt of the songs, this film has a limited target audience: six-year-old boys who want to be Michael Crawford...
...teaching of evolution comes under fire at the Scopes "monkey trial" in Tennessee...
...demonstrators unfurled signs declaring, OUR WOUNDS WILL NEVER HEAL! BE AWARE! COMMUNISTS ARE INVADING AMERICA. They are not angry about some controversial video (the rental shelves carry nothing questionable; the most popular tape, Tran says, is a martial-arts epic in which a student of Buddha's sends a monkey angel from heaven to fight evil on earth). Rather, the demonstrators started milling around Tran's store in January after he defiantly displayed a flag of the communist government of Vietnam and a poster of the regime's founder, Viet Cong leader Ho Chi Minh. That explains the effigies...