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DRAGONHEART (May 31). Can Dennis Quaid ever star in a hit movie? Maybe, if he plays a medieval bounty hunter and his sidekick is a chummy beast animated by suave computer graphics and voiced by Sean Connery. It's Braveheart meets Pete's Dragon: burly whimsy on the hoof...
...Hoof, Roosevelt's finance chair, said that the campaign had raised $30,000 as of last Thursday and that the figure would exceed last month...
...occupies an exalted place in the universe. Moreover, scientists have historic reasons to be skeptical of claims concerning animal intelligence. At the turn of the century, a wonder horse named Clever Hans wowed Europeans with his apparent ability to solve math problems, expressing his answers by tapping a hoof. Dutch psychologist Oskar Pfungst ultimately showed that Hans was merely responding to inadvertent cues from his human handlers, who, for instance, would visibly relax when the horse had tapped the proper number of times. When blindfolded by Pfungst, Hans ceased to be so clever...
...Balm, a salve for milk cows with, ah, dry skin, has become a popular hand cream. Recently a blacksmith and a chemist on New York's Long Island discovered that Dry Hoof Solution, a horse medication, strengthens nails. & Coming soon as an outlet for such products: Barn-Mart...
...happen that these old Truman-Kennedy-Johnson-Carter warriors, who rose out of anger and even hunger, crossed over into the sated land of Republicans? Victims of their own remarkable success, maybe. "Must be $50 billion on the hoof here," muttered a Kennedy veteran. Mrs. Harriman, one of the wealthiest Americans, is a kind of housemother to the Democratic Party. Megamillion lawyers like Lloyd Cutler, once counsel to President Carter, were a dime or so a dozen. "It's hard to get fire in the belly over health insurance when it's stuffed with pate," quipped the Kennedy...