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...they understand they're destroying an international landmark? It's like putting arms back on the Venus de Milo," he grumbled, "like fixing up the Colosseum in Rome and staging live gladiator events, or like filling in the Grand Canyon and putting up a patio and serving dinosaur burgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 2, 1975 | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...Zhivago. Now we're back to the Russian Revolution again. If this mammoth, loud, soppy dinosaur was shrunk down to its value as cinema (not cinerama) it would fit in Eisenstein's left nostril, who would no doubt, blow it out as quickly as he could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 4/24/1975 | See Source »

When paleontology Student Douglas Lawson set out to explore Texas' Big Bend National Park three years ago, he was confident that his fossil hunt would be productive. After all, remnants of creatures ranging from the ferocious dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex to the first true bird, Archaeopteryx, had already been unearthed in the fossil-rich wasteland. What Lawson found exceeded his wildest hopes: fragments of huge wing bones imbedded in a sandstone outcropping in a remote part of the park. Now, after comparing the bones with the remains of similar creatures found elsewhere, Lawson has announced that they belong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lawson's Monster | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...nephew of Terence O'Neill, the former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Most are businessmen, bankers or gentlemen farmers, living, if not in castles in Spain, on the palpable hope of restoration as well as on decent incomes. Not one appears to be a dimwit, a dinosaur or a debauchee or even a gossip-column item. Perhaps the one who conies closest to being a gay blade is Prince Louis-Ferdinand, 66, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and claimant to the empire of Germany and the kingdom of Prussia. The prince once had a torrid affair with Lili Damita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rambling Rex | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...Ravinia concert in dark blue bell-bottoms and matching polo shirt) and is so relaxed that he can indulge in one of his favorite pastimes, eating, even during intermissions. Aside from his steady girl friend, a Manhattan oboist, he has no organized nonmusical interests except the Navajo rugs and dinosaur bones that he collects for his apartment overlooking Central Park. Says he: "I feel there is enough scheduling in a musician's life that I try not to regulate the other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orpheus in the Gray Shades | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

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