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...side to the museum as well. At Christmastime, a santa's cap adorned the forty-two-foot-long, 135-million-year-old Kronosaurus queenslandicus. The door of the Mollusc Department sports a red-construction paper and lace doily valentine with decorated with pearly shells. The case of an ancient pachyderm is entitled, "Teleoceras--A Preposterous Rhinocerous...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, VISITING THE MUSEUMS | Title: Lions and Tigers and Trilobites, Oh My! | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...longs for Hoffa's Teamsters to come in and give them mean lessons. But everyone's main function is to trigger special effects and lend scale to production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti's overweening sets, which sometimes quote wittily from the modernist tradition (Dada, etc.) but also overuse the pachyderm motif at the heavy heart of this disastrously miscalculated movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Christmas Films Don't Sparkle | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

...Pacific before being picked up by a submarine. If, as Bush later claimed, he took time "to talk to God" after his rescue, crew members of the U.S.S. Finback didn't notice: what they most remember about the young man they nicknamed "Elephant" was his thunderous imitation of a pachyderm on a mad stampede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: In a Sentimental Mood | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...have been a limerick; it concerned an elephant in Sumatra that tried to, well, connect with its grandmother. The naked woman in the foreground foreshadows the title of Ernst's great collage-narrative of 1929, La Femme 100 Tetes, or The Hundred- Headless Woman. She languidly beckons the dumb pachyderm to further erotic fiascoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: The Rebel Dreams of Oedipus Max | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...mother with a tiny stump of a horn sprouting from its nose. The curious youngster, who is just learning rhino etiquette, leaves its mother's side to approach the visitors on the other side of the bars. It paws the ground, huffing and snorting like a grownup pachyderm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio Grande Valley, Texas | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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