Word: tyrannosaurus
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...Todd emerges the more likely contender, with an irrepressibly destructive influence and inhuman discourse which portray him as some eternal diabolic force. Enigmatically, he informs his family, "I think I died long ago... I'll be here long after you're gone..." while erecting the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex he mysteriously digs up in the back yard of the family mansion. The skeleton becomes a symbol of death and extinction, its reconstruction paralleling the demise of the family until in the final scene its imposing silhouette is cast against the bone-bare walls of the abandoned estate...
...around sheep ranches near his home in Buffalo, South Dakota, looking for prehistoric bones. Last May, while scrambling up the side of a butte, he noticed an unusually large pelvic bone and three sun-bleached vertebrae poking out of the siltstone. "I could tell right away it was a Tyrannosaurus rex, because they're really distinctive," he says. "I was pretty excited...
...million years ago, than many professionals. Since he found his first dinosaur bone, a triceratops vertebra, at age 8, he has scoured the landscape looking for more artifacts of the distant past. Counting his latest discovery, he has found two of the world's 14 known skeletons of Tyrannosaurus rex. Sacrison helped excavate the first last year, only a quarter-mile from his latest find...
After his discovery, Sacrison called Peter Larson, the president of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, in Hill City, South Dakota. Larson is a controversial figure in the world of paleontology: last year, after he announced that he was excavating the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found, the U.S. Attorney impounded the skeleton, contending that it had been illegally removed from government-owned land. Larson disagrees, and the institute is suing. But there is no dispute over Sacrison's latest find, which Larson named Duffy, in honor of his lawyer. After getting the landowner's permission, Sacrison...
...very least. While lawyers have always been targets because of their power and prosperity, this summer has brought a bumper crop of negative images. Audiences at Jurassic Park are roaring with approval as a Tyrannosaurus rex makes a meal of a lawyer sitting on a privy. Tom Cruise takes his life in his hands when he joins The Firm, where the partners cook the books for the Mafia. A TV advertisement sings the praises of planet Reebok, where there are no lawyers...