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Count on Awakenings, written by Steve Zaillian, to mop up at Oscar- $ nominations time. Any movie about mental disturbance (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man) is likely to touch Academy members, not so much because it treats a serious issue as because it parades the performer's craft. To watch De Niro shrink into the shadow of catatonia is to be made aware of his great gifts of body control, of withdrawing into character, of seeming to be. It's an awesome show that reveals more about De Niro than about the man he is playing. Like...
...youngster with muscular dystrophy battles against "inhumane" treatment in nursing homes. Fred Savage (The Wonder Years) stars in this junior-varsity version of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...femur and a collection of other bones back at the house were from baby duckbills. The shop owner took the two paleontologists to a ranch near Choteau where she had found the fragments, and during the next few weeks the scientists unearthed an entire nest 6 ft. in diameter, separating out the fossils with a garden hose and a window screen. To nonpaleontologists, Horner writes in his recent book, Digging Dinosaurs (Workman Publishing; $17.95), the fossils resembled "a bunch of black, sticklike rocks -- jumbled and inscrutable, the way much of modern art seems to me." But to Horner, they were...
Another plant is overrunning parts of the Southwest, including the Grand Canyon. Introduced about 70 years ago to act as an erosion fighter and windbreak, the tamarisk tree has taken over about 81,000 hectares (200,000 acres), pushing out native trees and threatening eight species of birds that nest in them. The Grand Canyon's major animal offenders are burros; turned loose by prospectors generations ago, they have grown into vegetation- devouring herds...
...stonework is marvelous," she says. "It was obviously ! meant to be a real showpiece." Built in 1849 in Cannelton, Ind., alongside the Ohio River, the brooding, fortress-like structure with twin turrets and heavily bracketed cornice was abandoned in the 1950s. Now the roof is a wreck, and starlings nest inside...