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This eminent dino digger was as awestruck as any Barney-balmy child when he saw modelmaker Winston's 9,000-lb. 40-ft.-long Tyrannosaurus rex model. "It was the closest I've ever been to a live dinosaur," he avers. He was standing a few feet from the resting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Magic of Jurassic Park | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Limbaugh picks his spots. He praises Ronald Reagan ("Ronaldus Magnus") for everything he likes about the '80s and blames the Democratic Congress for everything he hates. Snail darters get more play on his show than the recession. The chief miscreants in the B.C.C.I. scandal are not the Justice Department honchos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man. A Legend. A What!? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

Last year's Mo' Better Blues, a dyspeptic study of a musician who cares only for his trumpet and his ego, took heat for its sardonic depiction of two Jewish businessmen. Lee had an answer for that charge too. He wanted to open Jungle Fever with advice to those who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boyz Of New Black City | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

Tunnel vision is no problem for Branagh -- but in the service of the play, not the perks. "I'm not interested in being rich and famous," he avers, "in smoking a big cigar and driving a big car. I want to stay human-size, just as I wanted to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: King Ken Comes to Conquer | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Let's not be fussy, though. At least the airport has rest rooms. Many gas stations, especially self-service, cashier-booth pumpers, no longer do. Visitors who wait till they're in the city's elegant subway system are also reduced to toe-tapping: "There are no public rest rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: A Guide to Discomfort Stations | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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