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...they graduated from freshmen to the senior class by making movies like Casper and Jumanji. There's better detail, much better lighting, better muscle tone and movement in the animals. When a dinosaur transfers weight from his left side to his right, the whole movement of fat and sinew is smoother, more physiologically correct." Adds Industrial Light & Magic computer-graphics ace Dennis Muren: "We built the instrument for the first movie; on this one we're learning how to play it better. There are more animals [nine species here to five in the first film] and more effects shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: I WANTED TO SEE A T. REX STOMPING DOWN A STREET | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...what was there to see inside the techie Trekkies of Apollo? They seemed defiantly bland: all sinew, not much soul. They were the country-club Republican answer to '60s radicals. Instead of growing beards and dropping out, they kept their haircuts short and their rebellion in check. The most privileged among them played golf on the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: HELL OF A RIDE | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

...case, with evidence and arguments for each side. But in movie terms, the case is stacked against Lange: next to Berry's radiant youth, she looks sere and exhausted. It is one of those dares a maturing female star likes to take: stripping off her glamour to reveal bone, sinew, despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JESSICA LANGE: JESS LIKE A WOMAN | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...globe of living matter. Some dive deep into the core, where < they give rise to the intestinal tract. Others bunch along the surface, forming a hollow tube -- one end of which buds into a brain. Somehow every cell knows its place and fulfills its destinyas heart, bone, blood and sinew weave together into a single, organic whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brave New Embryos | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...shooting -- with flint points and feathers. The feathers had been affixed with a resin-like glue at an angle that would cause spin in flight and help maintain a true course. "It is significant that ballistic principles were known and applied," says Notdurfter. The quiver also held an untreated sinew that could be made into a bowstring; a ball of fibrous cord; the thorn of a deer's antler, which could be used to skin an animal; and four antler tips, tied together with grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stone Age Iceman | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

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