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...unique geology. Layers of sediment preserved animal specimens, while the volcanic eruptions that periodically shook the valley produced ash and lava whose radioactive elements make the fossils easy to date. Probably the most famous inhabitant of the valley was the diminutive creature known as Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), whose fossil skeleton was discovered in 1974 and who lived more than 3 million years...
Grateful Dead lyricist John Barlow, in a foreword to the indispensable handbook Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads, describes the fans' playful ardor as "a religion without beliefs." That sounds about right. For most Deadheads, a concert was a church they attended not so much for the gospel as for the communion and community, the hymns and the incense. A giant mushroom cloud of hallucinogenics would lay over the crowd like a fuzzy blanket...
Although the plot skeleton is ancient and predictable, the flesh of the movie is as firm and bouncy as Tank Girl's own. Talalay effectively juxtaposes the live action with short segments of animation, computerized effects, puppet animation and arty close-ups of Hewlett's drawings which rightly communicate the KAPOW! of comics. There is an extravagant Busby Berkeley dance number to Cole Porter's "Let's Fall in Love," and several other scenes totally unnecessary to the plot. It is these scenes which make the movie great...
...importance of process to this art cannot beexaggerated. As the installation progresses, andSpero learns that many of the pieces in theSackler's collection are funerary, she decides toinclude a Mexican image of a skeleton. "Isn't itscary?" she asks, holding up the black stencil ofa shrouded skeleton...
...editors said they expect to have a skeleton version of the guide done by the end of the summer, bnut will take an extra year to refine the product...