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...ENGAGED. REX MORGAN, 46, physician, to June Gale, 46, registered nurse; over dinner at Anton's. "June, I've waited too long to say this," began Dr. Morgan's proposal-something of an understatement, considering that the pair's relationship dates back to 1949, though it was studiously platonic until earlier this year. Summer nuptials are planned. The bride will retain her maiden name...
...down version of the budget amendment that did not include one of their favorite aspects: a requirement that any future tax increases would have to be approved by a three-fifths majority in both houses. In the Speaker's office, under an ornate chandelier and the inflatable toy Tyrannosaurus rex with an American flag in its claw, Gingrich held forth on the subject of unity. But the only way he eventually got it was by promising the freshmen an amendment of their own on the tax issue...
They were mean and bloodthirsty, sure, but such dinosaurs as Tyrannosaurus rex may well have had a more caring side. The clue is the discovery of a fossilized embryo from a carnivorous dinosaur: an oviraptor found in Mongolia. The embryo was lodged in a nest, which also contained bones from other tiny dinos that mother oviraptor might have eaten while watching over her sharp- toothed darlings. Apparently even prehistoric monsters knew how to parent...
Anyone who shuddered through Jurassic Park would never use the words motherly or nurturing to describe the movie's prehistoric villains -- especially not the vicious velociraptors and Tyrannosaurus rex that slashed their way across the screen. But those beasts may have had a softer side that moviegoers never...
...Todd emerges the more likely contender, with an irrepressibly destructive influence and inhuman discourse which portray him as some eternal diabolic force. Enigmatically, he informs his family, "I think I died long ago... I'll be here long after you're gone..." while erecting the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex he mysteriously digs up in the back yard of the family mansion. The skeleton becomes a symbol of death and extinction, its reconstruction paralleling the demise of the family until in the final scene its imposing silhouette is cast against the bone-bare walls of the abandoned estate...