Word: poseidon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ferns. It was similar in size and overall shape to the beast most people still think of--despite a highly unpopular renaming a few years ago--as Brontosaurus. The University of Oklahoma paleontologists who found the new species have named it, aptly, Sauroposeidon, after the Greek sea god. Poseidon was also in charge of earthquakes, and it's clear that every step this gargantuan creature took must have been literally seismic...
...guides will tell you it's practically illegal to remove your footwear. Do it anyway and save yourself a day's walk in soggy sneakers.) You also get sprayed in the elaborate Sinbad stunt show, in the swirling vortex that leads you to the battle of the gods in Poseidon's Fury, and on the One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish kiddie ride. Some days, of course, it'll just rain...
...long thought to be the industry's Death Star. The threats from technology persist. But it was management, not technology, that caused so much corporate pain and so many customer complaints. After all, how many times are you willing to go out for Titanic and come back with The Poseidon Adventure? Eventually you just stop going out. And that's exactly what happened: traffic slipped, new memberships decreased, and in April 1997, Blockbuster revealed that earnings had sagged...
...Odyssey has been promoted with endless TV ads, a tie-in book and a Website game. The movie's budget went largely to transporting hundreds of cast and crew members to remote, often roadless locales in Turkey and Malta and manufacturing special effects like the rendering of the god Poseidon as a talking tidal wave...
DIED. STIRLING SILLIPHANT, 78, TV and film writer; in Bangkok. His screenplays ranged from the socially conscious Oscar winner In the Heat of the Night to the haunting fable Charly to the flat-out thriller The Poseidon Adventure...