Over the past week, Sony Pictures Entertainment has received more body blows than Muhammad Ali during the Rumble in the jungle.
Now, visitors are scarce and the jungle is taking over, leaving some locals nostalgic.
A Belgian church has a chalkboard sitting at the pulpit with the jungle peeking through the windows behind it.
Bibi was pregnant, and Louise delivered her baby, a boy named Christian, the same day in the jungle.
Certainly I can imagine ways of giving this jungle hero some up-to-date progressive attitudes.
"Number One has escaped into the jungle, Professor," he said.
The day was sultry, and the heat, even in the dense shade of the jungle, oppressive.
And you have watched over me alone in the jungle for two days?
"I'd like to know how I'm going to get back through this jungle after dark," Charlie said.
There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a jungle, close about the door.
1776, from Hindi jangal "desert, forest, wasteland, uncultivated ground," from Sanskrit jangala-s "arid, sparsely grown with trees," of unknown origin. Specific sense of "land overgrown by vegetation in a wild, tangled mass" is first recorded 1849; meaning "place notoriously lawless and violent" is first recorded 1906, from Upton Sinclair's novel (cf. asphalt jungle, 1949, William R. Burnett's novel title, made into a film 1950 by John Huston; blackboard jungle, 1954, Evan Hunter's novel title, movie in 1955). Jungle gym was a trademark name, 1923, by Junglegym Inc., Chicago, U.S. Jungle bunny, derogatory for "black person," attested from 1966.
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