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...viewpoint is unconventional, so is the man. Horner, 44, teaches at Montana State University and is curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, but he has no knack for academic decorum (administrators at the museum wish the rubber stamp could say, I DON'T GIVE A DARN WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS). He disdains intellectual showboating, describing his own tyrannosaurus as a "media specimen," valuable mainly because it will bring the fang-and-claw set into the museum to see really important stuff, like duckbills tending their offspring. His manner is casual and laconic, which fits with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACK HORNER; Head Man In the Boneyard | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...that the mavericks are undeserving of the attention they receive. Says Martin Kilson, Harvard's first black tenured professor: "Steele's stuff is simpleminded, one-dimensional psychological reductionism. It's slick sophistry." Declares Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P.: "These people have nothing to offer except a conservative viewpoint in a black skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shelby Steele: Up From Obscurity | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...entertainment live." Third, it is almost impossible to get agents and casting directors to come, even to Opryland, nine miles from the country-music-industry center in Nashville. Admits Kelly Wilmoth, 26, a Hersheypark performer who has appeared on the Bermuda Star Line and in dinner theaters: "From the viewpoint of getting your next job, this work almost might not have happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Where The Stagestruck Get Started | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...this document at his confirmation hearings," said Arthur J. Kropp, president of the liberal group People for the American Way. Kropp, whose organization on Monday released copies of New Hampshire's fillings in the 1976 case, said the language in them "suggests a clear sympathy for an anti-abortion viewpoint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...As Experts Look Elsewhere For More Insight | 7/31/1990 | See Source »

Another point of difference we have with the American viewpoint concerns the issue of foreign military presence in Europe. We are ready to bring our own soldiers home. We're already doing so. The U.S. Administration assumes that Soviet troops on foreign territory are an absolute evil while American troops are always good. Therefore the Americans are looking for any pretext to delay their departure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev Interview: I Am an Optimist | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

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