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Audiences will be the judge of whether Jurassic Park lives up to its makers' hopes and boasts. They will be looking not for a museum exhibit but for a good movie -- one that spurs childlike terror and wonder by fooling the eye 24 times a second. They want to be convinced that the artful fraud on the screen is real. The prehistoric creatures from The Lost World (1925), One Million B.C. (1940), The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) and Godzilla (1954) dwelt in kids' nightmares, not because they were realistic -- scientists knew so much less about dinosaurs back then...
...folks at Jurassic Park are banking that all their expertise will evoke those age-old giggles and screams -- that scientific fact will be alchemized into sublime fakery...
That Dorfman was convinced the story was valid and not just a product of recurrent dinomania or the buzz surrounding the upcoming release of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park came as a relief to her colleagues. In her capacity as TIME's head science researcher, she has sent many an overhyped nonstory to extinction. "Andrea serves as a kind of litmus test," says senior editor Claudia Wallis, who first suggested the time might be ripe for a reappraisal of dinosaurs. "She's constitutionally incapable of exaggeration." Adds another editor, Charles Alexander: "She has a scientist's skepticism...
...that's possible. In light of the new insights, museums around the world are revamping musty exhibits or installing new ones. They are rearranging the old stilted skeletons on display into new dynamic poses and adding such modern attractions as robotic dinos and interactive computer games. Dinosaur theme parks are booming, while toy stores overflow with stuffed stegosauruses, dinosaur puzzles and models, not to mention the omnipresent videosaurus Barney. And early in June, dino-mania will reach fever pitch with the premiere of Steven Spielberg's long-awaited movie version of the Michael Crichton thriller Jurassic Park. (See following story...
...centuries, but were ascribed to dragons or extinct lizards or even giant ravens. Owen realized that these enormous bones belonged to a previously unknown and long-extinct group of animals related to but different from lizards. Dinosaurs became an immediate rage in London. An 1854 exhibition at Hyde Park's Crystal Palace featured a number of life-size dinosaur models that drew throngs of admirers...