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...boundary between science and science fiction -- in that twilight area where the imaginative sleuthing of paleontology meets the storytelling craft of filmmaking -- lies Jurassic Park. The technicians working with director Steven Spielberg on the film version of Michael Crichton's best seller spared no effort or expense to make the story's dinosaurs as accurate as current knowledge permitted. Dinosaur fans from youth, they cared about getting it right. But on a movie screen, footnotes are not allowed. "We were trying to be credible," co-producer Kathleen Kennedy says. "But we were also making a movie...
That Dorfman was convinced the story was valid and not just a product of recurrent dinomania or the buzz surrounding the upcoming release of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park came as a relief to her colleagues. In her capacity as TIME's head science researcher, she has sent many an overhyped nonstory to extinction. "Andrea serves as a kind of litmus test," says senior editor Claudia Wallis, who first suggested the time might be ripe for a reappraisal of dinosaurs. "She's constitutionally incapable of exaggeration." Adds another editor, Charles Alexander: "She has a scientist's skepticism...
...adding such modern attractions as robotic dinos and interactive computer games. Dinosaur theme parks are booming, while toy stores overflow with stuffed stegosauruses, dinosaur puzzles and models, not to mention the omnipresent videosaurus Barney. And early in June, dino-mania will reach fever pitch with the premiere of Steven Spielberg's long-awaited movie version of the Michael Crichton thriller Jurassic Park. (See following story...
...Committee of Gay, Bisexual and Lesbian Legal Issues (COGBLLI) will bring the suggestion to the Leadership Council, a University-wide coalition of 15 gay groups, according to second-year Law School and COGBLLI member Steven K. Homer...
...Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) takes exception to the April 17 Crimson story describing Joshua Oppenheimer's vandalism of an AALARM poster. Although Robert Wasinger of the AALARM Presidential Council provided Crimson reporter Steven Engel with an eyewitness statement of what occurred, the reporter ignored his statement and reported only Oppenheimer's version of events, without giving the unsuspecting reader any reason to suppose that what actually happened was a matter of controversy...