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...Manhattan's Film Forum, where a splendid new 35mm print is unspooling through March 28. The big screen and clear print lets you see the pockmarks on J.J.'s skin (the harsh lighting that cinematographer James Wong Howe threw on Lancaster makes him look by turns reptilian and leprous), allows you to read the small print on the cover of a scandal magazine called Sensation (the lead story: "Sex in the City"). But the picture looks good in any size. Even the videocassette format provides a feral pleasure, as Howe's camera prowls the New York nighttown like an accomplice...
...large. No accidental bad guys for us - no doubting, fallible, uncertain villains who stumble improvisationally from crime to crime, blinking in occasional surprise at their own power to do harm. No, we prefer cunning, slit-eyed evildoers, malefactors who plan their crimes with dispassionate genius, then execute them with reptilian calm. What sense does a devil make if he acts too much like...
...rest of us are biding our time. Ten minutes later we round a corner and the collective cry goes up: "Crocodile!" There's a stampede as everyone rushes to the side of the boat, which miraculously remains stable. The croc's a big one, maybe 1.3 tons of reptilian flesh and bones basking on the bank. Also big are the teeth, which you can't help but notice as its considerable jaw is wide open. Maybe a warning? Our guide offers a more sympathetic explanation: estuarine, or saltwater, crocs often keep their mouths open when lolling...
...unnatural juxtaposition of patterns on a natural body, Faiman had her models lie down on the back of a carpet square and used baby oil to experiment with the external markings she could create on the bodies of young women. "I got the idea it would look almost reptilian if I could get it shiny enough to look like scales," she explains...
...Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh have uncovered the softball-size remains of a heart inside the fossilized skeleton of one of their dinosaurs. And what a find it is: The Thescelosaurus pumper, which may be the first dinosaur heart ever seen by human eyes, is decidedly un-reptilian; it's divided into four chambers and fed by a single aorta. This structure, scientists explain, suggests that the dinosaur in question was warm-blooded, like birds and mammals, rather than cold-blooded, like snakes and lizards...