Word: pet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amazing. Dinosaurs live. You are there, once upon a time, before mammal walked or man dreamed. You can pet a triceratops and, if you wish, examine its droppings. You can feed a vegetarian brachiosaur, whose movements are graceful, endearing. At times the beasts (animated, mostly, by the computer - sorcerers from Industrial Light & Magic) move in a hazier space than the humans in the foreground, but in the intimate scenes the dinos are utterly convincing. Spielberg loves to mix wonder with horror, and he has fun creating a living Museum of Natural Fantasy...
...build Capitol Hill constituencies early and pay close attention to congressional prerogatives and sensitivities. As Dole advises from his sunny balcony, "If you really want cooperation ((from Congress)), don't bypass us until you suddenly need us." In other words, Bill Clinton must learn to pet the lions if he doesn't want them to bite...
After twelve years of Republicans, Hollywood's beautiful, liberal people are flocking to this friendlier administration. They lobby the president's staff on their pet issues and act like they are a part of the loop...
...children were trundled in in wheelbarrows, too weak to walk. "Look," she says, pointing to a boy registered in her logbook. "That child should have been dead. Now there is such life here: they argue, they play football." As she speaks, a group of kids runs past chasing a pet baboon with a red cross painted on its bottom...
...ghosts: a black man Robicheaux saw murdered as a teenager whose corpse resurfaces, and a Civil War officer sometimes accompanied by battered but unbowed troops. Throw in the Mafia, visiting Hollywood moviemakers, a serial killer and such fillips as Robicheaux's adopted Salvadoran daughter and pet three-legged raccoon, named Tripod, and one has a gumbo to clog any narrative. It doesn't, because Burke writes prose as moody and memory-laden as his region...