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Enter Glen Kuban. "I decided that if it really was true, somebody ought to go down and document it better," he says. "If it wasn't true, then that ought to be demonstrated better too." He found that shallow grooves at the front of the tracks were typical of dinosaurs, not humans, and that the tracks widened at the front more than human prints would. It was not until later, Kuban recalls, that he noticed toeprints, outlined in the same bluish-gray material that helps distinguish the tracks from the tan-ivory surrounding rock. Further study revealed similar tracks...
...latest in a series of pop-charity extravaganzas-- Farm Aid, Comic Relief and Live Aid --that have raised somewhere around $81 million over the past year for farmers, the homeless in the U.S. and the starving in Africa. America's fascination with celebrities, so often demeaned as shallow and voyeuristic, has been turned into a vehicle to aid the least celebrated. Says Rockefeller: "If Tina Turner and Mick Jagger can have fun while raising money, why can't the rest...
...SHALLOW GRAVES: TWO WOMEN AND VIETNAM by Wendy Wilder...
...offers a far more unusual perspective. The daughter of a Vietnamese mandarin, she twice became the second wife in polygamous marriages, first to a Chinese general, then to her sister's husband. She managed to escape to the south and later watched Saigon dissolve. "So many . . . left in shallow graves," she recalls from her new U.S. home, "souls wandering ceaselessly." It is a cry that echoes long after the close of her valedictory...
Another example of the reviewer's carelessness is the obvious misunderstanding of the character of "Patty." Krause writes that Jennifer Joss has mistakenly portrayed Patty as "a shallow, bubbly, valley girl" when she should be an "irritating tomboy." In fact, it is Krause who is mistaken. The character of "Patty" in the musical is based on Schultz's earlier and entirely different character of "Patty," not on the more recent comic strip character, "Peppermint Patty...