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This weekend, anyway, they preferred watching more serious monkeyshines of the Planet of the Apes species.

From Time ● Aug. 7, 2011

An acrobatically agile cast, including Michael Crawford, Geraldine Page and Lynn Redgrave, brings the monkeyshines to a high polish.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the musical stuffed shirts wanted more blatant examples of undignified monkeyshines, he could refresh their memories.

From Time Magazine Archive

To make the point crystal clear, Castello Branco's tough old War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva went on TV last week to remind everyone that the military will stand for no monkeyshines.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Run, then; an' if Job abuses you, just let me know it, an' I'll keep him from cuttin' up any monkeyshines."

From Toby Tyler Or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis




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