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This turn should not have come completely by surprise. "Achtung Baby" contained hints of this latest incarnation, especially in the resonating "Zoo Station." And in many ways, "Zooropa" is nothing more than a musical extension of the still running Zoo TV Tour...
...most of the comic burden on the characters around him, who are a dull lot. Mom and Dad (voiced by Molly Cheek and Martin Mull) have plain-vanilla marital spats, and the two kids are boring Bart-and- Lisa wannabes. The plots are thin (Family Dog goes to the zoo or befriends a homeless woman), and the dialogue, by sitcom veteran Dennis Klein (Buffalo Bill), is more garrulous than witty: "That was stealing, and stealing is bad . . . Ipso facto, Fido...
...Senate. That happened a few weeks ago with Clinton's $19.5 billion economic stimulus package, and a similar outcome for the tax bill is possible. "The Senate," says Representative John Dingell of Detroit, "has the same procedural rules as you would find on Monkey Island in the San Francisco zoo." Moreover, the Senate has only 14 more Democrats than Republicans, and, on the crucial Senate Finance Committee, the Democrats control only 11 of the 20 seats...
...note on the door. "Don't go in," the note warned. "Dangerous alligator inside." No big deal, Reno's brother Bob told her: their mother, an alligator wrestler from way back, had been bitten while trying to cram a four-footer into a crate for shipment to the London Zoo. Mom was at the hospital having her hand sewn up. Janet and Bob found the offending alligator in the fireplace and, with the help of some local Indians, managed to send the beast at last on its way to England...
...Before the scheduled opening, a few guests -- including craggy paleontologist Alan Grant, lissome paleobotanist Ellie Sattler and Hammond's two young grandchildren -- come to Jurassic Park for a sneak preview. Then things go spectacularly wrong. The novel's first half is a controlled tram trip through this high-tech zoo, the second half a terror- filled obstacle course strewn with dinosaurs amuck: swooping pterodactyls, dilophosaurs that spit venom, a famished tyrannosaurus and a Panzer division of velociraptors, the meanest and cagiest of the menagerie...