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...movie Jurassic Park, dinosaur fossils are found by a jet-setting paleontologist with a millionaire benefactor and a glamorous female assistant. In real life the relics are more often discovered by the likes of Stan Sacrison, 37, a plumber and electrician who likes to wander around sheep ranches near his home in Buffalo, South Dakota, looking for prehistoric bones. Last May, while scrambling up the side of a butte, he noticed an unusually large pelvic bone and three sun-bleached vertebrae poking out of the siltstone. "I could tell right away it was a Tyrannosaurus rex, because they're really...
Although Sacrison describes himself as an amateur paleontologist who has never traveled outside his own time zone, he is too modest. In a sense, he has spent more time in the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, than many professionals. Since he found his first dinosaur bone, a triceratops vertebra, at age 8, he has scoured the landscape looking for more artifacts of the distant past. Counting his latest discovery, he has found two of the world's 14 known skeletons of Tyrannosaurus rex. Sacrison helped excavate the first last year, only a quarter-mile from his latest find...
...children. He located Bruce Reed at Georgetown University Hospital, where his own health-care bill was rising while his wife was undergoing tests for a stomach ailment. He found Joshua Wiener, a Brookings Institution fellow, clipping hedges at his home in Washington. Wiener grabbed some of his kids' purple-dinosaur scratch paper and, at his kitchen table, retabulated the costs and savings one more time. He figured Clinton needed $50 billion for a bare-bones benefit package, and he doubted Magaziner's savings could generate that...
...First, an early start: the Chevy Chase Show will have a half-hour jump on Jay and Dave. He will do a nightly version of his SNL Weekend Update routine. He will play sketch characters: a Monsieur Faux Pas, perhaps the old SNL "land shark" metamorphosed into a dinosaur. Big-name guests? No problem: "I know every celebrity there is, practically, and they're all friends...
Irony abounds. On Dinosaur Act, Sweet seems to poke fun at his own hippie- era idols, while Quine's wailing riffs and power chords evoke their bombastic guitar-driven sound. The second half of the record opens with an audio clip from the film Caligula, in which the Roman dictator, played by Malcolm McDowell, declares himself a god; then, on the very next track, comes Ugly Truth Rock, a droll comment on the megalomaniac temptations of stardom...