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This eminent dino digger was as awestruck as any Barney-balmy child when he saw modelmaker Winston's 9,000-lb. 40-ft.-long Tyrannosaurus rex model. "It was the closest I've ever been to a live dinosaur," he avers. He was standing a few feet from the resting T. rex when its head jerked up with startling speed and swung back and forth, alert and lifelike. "It came up real fast, its eyes dilated, its skin was twitching. When you see it, it doesn't take much imagination to get beyond the fantasy. I jumped about 10 feet...
...model for the book's hero -- though Horner wryly notes that Alan Grant is "better funded." He advised on every creature feature, from head (they often lost teeth) to foot (when they walked, the heel, not the toe, hit the ground first.) "They have detail inside the T. rex's mouth that no one has ever seen. It's a guess -- a best guess. And a lot of adults will be surprised that dinosaurs don't drag their tails," Horner says. "But the kids will know it's right...
...Barney, a pudgy, fuzzy Tyrannosaurus rex who stars on the smash children's public-television show Barney & Friends. Virtually every day, some 2 million youngsters do not so much watch the show as enter into it, talking back to Barney, singing and dancing along with...
...Later Rex Scouten, chief White House usher, remembers walking with Ford to his bedroom on that night, saying something about Ford's long, distinguished public career and how it might be best for him to move on and think of himself. Ford looked at Scouten with a great hurt in his eyes. "I don't believe so," he said. None of them ever...
COVER: Photograph from REX USA/Keystone