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...bottom-line-only readers and a wry collection of pictographs and charts, like "Number of Laughs Enjoyed in Lloyd's Corporation As a Function of Profit Growth." Bing's style is highly readable: workers aren't fired, they're "decruited." And he can make the most loathsome corporate lizard amusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Company Man | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...find it, of course look for ?Gojira,? the original Japanese version that features our favorite radiation-enhanced lizard in full Gates mode, stomping on people like so many third-party software vendors. But settle for the somewhat altered but still terrifying American version, ?Godzilla, King of the Monsters,? if only for a rather fine performance by Raymond Burr. And try not to read to much into "Bambi Meets Godzilla" -- the boys at Justice surely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Godzilla vs. the Potato | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

...SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL and DON'T LET THEM NAB OUR AIRWAVES; a 30-ft. red, white and blue banner proclaimed MICROPOWER; and a red-bearded man in sandals and beret cried out, "Communication is your divine right whether you're a human being or a dog or a lizard! Bring back the village square! Let microtransmitters bloom in every town and city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio Free America | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...well as velociraptors, is considered by many to comprise the direct ancestors of modern birds. Having the internal organs in hand could help support--or torpedo--that connection. Already, in fact, some scientists are suggesting that the position of the liver indicates an internal structure more like a lizard's than a bird's, undercutting the dinosaur-bird link. Its breastbone, on the other hand, says paleontologist Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History, could hardly be more birdlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinosaur With Guts | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...curiosity in its sufferers than Lotto's Portrait of a Young Man, circa 1530. It depicts its subject with sallow face, deep dark eyes and Hamlet-black clothes, idly toying with the pages of an unread book; drying rose petals are scattered on the table next to a watching lizard, emblem of cold-bloodedness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Enchanting Strangeness | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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