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...BOTTOM LINE: Begone, dull scruple! Sneak out of school and and enjoy this exuberant romantic romp...
...Calders in this show will do more to rehabilitate Calder -- by showing what first raised enthusiasm for his work -- than almost anything that has been put on view in the past quarter-century. In his later years (he died in 1976) Calder seemed dull and overexposed. Nobody could love and only a hurricane could budge the red mobile that hangs, like a glider beefed up to the size of a DC-3, from the roof of the East Building of Washington's National Gallery of Art. Calder's genius in the '20s and '30s was for making extraordinarily delicate...
...have signed off on such a scenario, but not today. An avalanche of new evidence -- from fossilized bones, dinosaur nests, eggs and even footprints, analyzed with such high-tech equipment as CAT scans and computers -- has completely transformed scientific thinking about dinosaurs. Triceratops and other herbivores were not necessarily dull-witted, nor did they wander around alone; they probably traveled in vast herds and went on annual migrations. They may have cared for their young, and perhaps cooperated with one another to protect them from predators. Predators too were social. All but the oldest and biggest tyrannosaurs traveled in packs...
Dinosaurs probably weren't cold-blooded either. They could move along briskly, even in cool weather; some lived above the Arctic Circle, where the sun never rises in winter. Rather than a uniform dull green, they could easily have been striped, spotted and brilliantly colored. Even the idea that all the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago is now passe. Many experts believe that one resilient line is still flourishing today. The common name for these modern dinosaurs: birds. Observes Mark Norell, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City: "Birds are more closely...
...where some of their surroundings lose their form, Brown and Hopkins are capable of compensating for the chilly atmosphere, which can otherwise freeze the viewer out. Quartett demands maintenance of that edge which makes the difference between dull and cutting...