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...movie is based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who really knew how to heap on the plot. Burroughs may not have been much of a stylist, but any writer who can bring submarines and Brontosauri together deserves respect. Just for the record, Bowen Tyler (McClure) and Lisa Clayton (Penhaligon) are passengers on a ship that is torpedoed by Captain von Schoenvorts (John McEnery). Along with a few surviving British officers, Tyler takes over the German submarine (don't ask how; luck has something to do with it), which gets lost somewhere around South America. Water and supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Second Childhood | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...pool peddler is happy until he chances upon Muscle Beach, a Pacific sand pile on which barbell brontosauri lovingly cultivate their abs (abdominal beef), glutes (backsides) and pects (chest muscles). There he spies the girl of his dreams-but alas, she loves a weight lifter. Can the underpected salesman sunder this pair? Sure he can, if he will only assert his baritoned intelligence against the rival falsetto. A falsetto, of course, is-in the definition of Poet-Punster Mark Van Doren-a guy with a false set o' values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Among the Abs & Pects | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

Over the heads of those in front, pasteboard periscopes peered like curious Brontosauri. There were cowboys and a trick dog from California, shivering bathing beauties from Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I Have the Job | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...pterodactyls, brontosauri and jungle foliage are the same as those in King Kong but young Kong himself is a new animal. His father was black but he is white, and only 12 ft. tall. Young Kong dies as bravely as his father, though less dramatically, when his island is disrupted by an earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 8, 1934 | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

Phantasmagoria. The fantastic pyrotechnics of colored ink and nightmare layouts with which Hearst, ever demure in appearance, staggered public attention in the next few years are still faintly reflected today in his American Weekly (circulation: 6,000,000). Snorting brontosauri with swarms of pterodactyls perched on their backs go gallivanting from the primordial slime across the toes of fabulous princesses, heiresses and actresses who, swooning in ermine negligees with hot love-letters stacked around them, "confess all" under the shadow of Science's latest mechanical star-splitter, a device for laying the centuries end to end-so that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

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