Word: dinosaurs
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...DINOSAUR had been living in our suite for a week before I finally spoke to him. Our floater, a Cambridge skateboard punk--now withdrawn from Harvard to his native streets--had let the psuedo-prehistoric monster in and then disappeared home, leaving us trying desperately to ignore the spiky invader...
Things pick up with Dinosaur, a short educational film in which a grade-schooler's show-and tell starts leaping off the blackboard and showing its fangs. A few of his order independent shorts are also worthwhile, but it takes the big-bucks of advertising to give the Men and Women of Clay a chance to fly. The program whizzes through the ads to the best thing ever shown on MTV, John Fogerty's "Vanz Kant Danz" video, featuring a snivelling pig in a transformation sequence that is equalled only by the final and best short, "The Great Cognito...
Also worth a note is the frame-sequences, featuring a skinny dinosaur and a fat...a fat something arguing in a movie theater on a show called "Freak Previews." The resemblances are amazing, as are the levels of violence reached as the two chew each other out. As it were...
...small farms in Kansas and South Carolina that lie as graveyards to unpaid mortgages. Everybody seems to know everything everywhere. The television news displays a riot in an overcrowded Tennessee prison, a newly discovered poem by Shakespeare, an earthquake in Mexico, a bombing in Libya, starvation in Africa, a dinosaur bone...
...snugly as two curved tracks in a set of electric trains. It is a given that this is an age of futurism and intricacy in toys, and indeed some Transformers are wondrous and devilish at once. The Decepticon Trypticon (about $56) is a gray, green and purple animated dinosaur that turns -- with some flips, tucks and fast snaps -- into an entire city. Transformers (a mainstay of Toy & Hobby World's Toy Hit Parade) have lots of modern dash, but electric trains still have romance enough to lure any kid away from a video game. Purists note that Lionel...