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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 bring the monkeyshines to a high polish.

From Time Magazine Archive

However fetchingly its poetry may glisten through the monkeyshines, it is a comedy of errors usually compounded in production.

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

"We'll have no more monkeyshines," he said severely.

From Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance by Hutchison, Paula




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