Word: extinct
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...distance, especially in the gorgeous underwater scenes; close-up, they're sometimes as convincing as the Sleestacks in Land of the Lost. The narration, while informative, can slip into corny anthropomorphism ("This female Utahraptor is up to no good!"), none of which undercuts the eternal coolness factor of the extinct. Last month Discovery's Raising the Mammoth drew 10.1 million people, the biggest cable-documentary audience ever, and Haines is at work on follow-ups. Thankfully, his stars may be able to crush spines in their powerful jaws, but they can't ask for raises...
...Tattersall is a curator at the American Museum of Natural History. His latest book, Extinct Humans, is due out in June
...Stranger Than Paradise, has pretty much defined the spirit of the truly independent American film. Ghost Dog is talking about himself and his Mafia contact, but he might be speaking of Jarmusch when he says, "Me and him, we're from different ancient tribes. And we're both almost extinct...
...least for some of them. "Indianness" is a touchy subject. He could have phrased it a little more elegantly, but Trump did strike a nerve: calling many of the American Indian groups running casinos these days "tribes" can require a creative definition of tribe, with certain tribal identities extinct or disappearing fast...
...seen the pace of almost every aspect of life speed to dizzying proportions, and in the future attention spans will get shorter than we can imagine. The time it takes to make us laugh will thus be the true test of the most successful entertainer. Stand-up comedy, nearly extinct in the '90s, will have trouble surviving at all. The reason? No time to go to a club to hear a live human being tell jokes, or wait through 45 minutes of Late Night with Conan O'Brien before the stand-up appears. People looking for a laugh will simply...