Weatherby, the Trenton Cuban Giants engaged in comic pantomime and "
monkeyshines" that made spectators roar with delight.
"A mirthful spectacle": race, blackface minstrelsy, and base ball, 1874-1888
I came to college to learn something, to get an education with my head, and not
monkeyshines with my arms and legs" (Yezierska 1999, 216).
The three Rs: reading, (w)riting, and romance in class mobility narratives by Yezierska, Smedley and Saxton
(24) The Nation wrote that Rolph's style suggested the "glamour, the professional geniality, and the circus
monkeyshines of modern royalty." (25)
Sunny Jim in the boiling cauldron: the fatal first year of the Rolph administration
Murphy's script never advances past that none-too-compelling setup; despite some agreeably quirky odds and ends and some potentially rich characters, it's satisfied to be a series of
monkeyshines in which Albert tries to stay one step ahead of the opportunists--a task certainly easy enough for the audience.
Milwaukee, Minnesota
` `Tilt' (which, incidentally, includes "
Monkeyshines'), a revue-style comedy about skewed or misperceived reality, was produced by Actors' Theatre, in Talent, just outside Ashland, in 1991.'
Ashland woman gets hooked on writing plays
Yet when Hollings correctly pointed out Danforth's past votes, he accused the Republican of engaging in "
monkeyshines, which is a polite expression, maybe, for hypocrisy."
Competing visions: the National Competitiveness Act would make Uncle Sam a venture capitalist
To the extent that the
monkeyshines depend on the check coming into the defaulter's hands, an effective stop-gap can usually be interposed if a procedural rule of internal control were observed whereby checks are released for mailing directly from the office of the signing individual.
A case study of employee frauds
Under the complex formula written into Gann's new piece of
monkeyshines, more and more of that highway money would come directly out of funds otherwise available for schools, welfare and hospitals.
Turning point on fiscal austerity?
Wirt Elizabeth Thompson, an eye-opener incomparable to anything I had written about before, including the scam of federal deposit insurance, the
monkeyshines at the World Bank, and other unconstitutional and unaccountable quasi-federal agencies.
What government can do to you: our government has steadily, and increasingly openly, treated Americans as dispensable assets--to be used or discarded at will
What's left are basically some very shopworn
monkeyshines (on behalf of both the chimp and Woods, who can be quite hilarious trying to hide his clipped, nasally whine behind a Bratwurst accent) more than reminiscent of the recent series of "MVP" movies.
Race To Space
"What Planet of the Apes Are You From?"-Garry Shandling stars as a sex-obsessed gorilla in the sci-fi
monkeyshines.
Co-prod'n sequels: twin-win situation. (Inside Moves)
Enraged by such a betrayal, apedom's ever-agitated military leader Thade (Tim Roth) convinces Ari's venerable father (David Warner, back again to "Morgan"
monkeyshines at last) to declare martial law, allowing him to embark on a massive search-and-destroy mission against Leo and his little group.
PLANET OF THE APES