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Father to the other two space-time travelers in the show, Rick here is more the intrepid guide, or he acts that way, even when he's feeling trepid. To blend in with prehistoric beasts, he'll douse himself in the dinosaur urine he's harvested. He'll wander - make that blunder - into dangerous situations and, in the movie's sharpest moment, tiptoe through a nest of baby dinosaurs, sedating the little ones by singing "I Hope I Get It" from A Chorus Line. Less overbearing than in his earlier films but no less resolute, Ferrell seems to be channeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of the Lost: Delusions of Manhood | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...going to indulge in name-calling," said a wary-looking Mike McCurry, giving his most trepid press briefing since the last week in January -- back when Monica Lewinsky became a household name. Unlike then, there was no angry statement from the President. His denials had already been made in a sworn deposition. Rather than jabbing his finger at the camera, Clinton declared himself "mystified and disappointed by this turn of events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Willey Charges: White House Treads Carefully | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Died. John Archer Gee, 50, vast and vigorous Yale professor of English com position; after long illness; in New Haven. A masterful lecturer on the comma (or any other article of punctuation), an in trepid Maine Coast power boatman, he was perhaps the greatest tennis player of his weight (well beyond 200 lbs.) in the U.S. He observed: "I have to hit them hard. If they come back, I can't get to them." His advice to the young: "Not many of us can be Davy Crocketts, but some, perchance, may hope to fill the niche of Millard Fillmore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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