Show xct'S 6E The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday October 16 19H8 Scientist takes radical view of dinosaurs I’oore Tribune Staff Writer Although paleontologist Robert T Bakker's radical views on dinosaur evolution are winning acceptance with his fellow scientists he will always be something of a heretic to his mother "She’s a creationist — a teacher of the Old Testament” he explained in a telephone interview during a Toronto lecture tour Discussions with her tend to take "a Talmudic approach to the Mesozoic" Bakker said "Are Dinosaurs kosher?” is one topic for debate “This is a serious question" he said “Because it says in the law of Moses that thou shalt not eat anything that crawls upon its belly And the word reptile means crawling So if dinosaurs are indeed terrible reptiles' they're unclean animals and they can t be kosher But if they're most birds are clean really birds By Ann animals” Bakker has won an international reputation for insisting (contrary to accepted theory) that dinosaurs were not only active quick warmblooded creatures but that they have direct living descendants in the avian world He will explain his theories in “The Dinosaur Heresies" a lecture based on his 1986 book of that title Wednesday at 7 30 p m in Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus Admission is $1 class on At 630 pm a drawing dinosaurs will be given by Bakker who illustrated his own book The $1 charge will cover admission to both the lecture and prelecture which is aimed primarily at children The lecture is part of a series sponsored by the Utah Museum of Natural History to wind up Utah's Year of the Dinosaur An adjunct curator of paleontology at the University of Colorado Museum in Boulder Bakker earned his undergraduat3 degree from Yale a doctorate from Harvard (where he was elected to the elite Society of Fellows) and held teaching positions e at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University Some 38 of his articles have appeared in journals like Science Nature Audubon and Scientific American Television credits include programs for NBC Nova BBC and British Independent Television His most recent television effort is an episode of BBS's “Infinite Voyage" series “The Great Dinosaur Hunt" tentatively scheduled to air locally the first week in January on KUED and KBYU Despite his success his parents still wish he would become a “real'’ doctor — at least a dentist Bakker grew up "surrounded by opera" His father an electrical engineer was also a musician and saw to it that his son learned classical trombone even providing lessons from the first trombonist with the Metropolitan Opera in New York But when Bakker began referring to the trombone as a “Mesozoic instrument” and applying the same adjective to Wagner's operas (“I think Gotterdammerung is basically about dinosaur extinction" he says) his father might have realized that medical school was out of the question Bakker said the dinosaur virus hit him suddenly in the fourth grade — all due to a single issue of Life magazine in the early '50s “It had a painting of dinosaurs on the cover the beginning of the magazine's multi part series on The World We Live In I spent hours on it reading and rereading it It was instant conver- sion" Dinosaur fever he said comes along about the same time as mumps and chicken pox “Most kids have an intense interest and then they get over it and have an immunity I never got over it “When I grew up it was a boy's thing Not anymore The gender bias is finally broken I keeps notes now I lecture to and on fourth-gradermore than half of those who say they want to be paleontologists w hen they grow up are girls" Bakker knows firsthand t'at women make good field geologists He is currently working on a “gigantic allosaur dig" about a mile outside s Boulder — an allosaur discovered by his wife Constance Claik and their dog Brance Noseram “Constance finds a lot of fossils" Bakker said (In addition to crossing gender gaps Bakker believes dinosaurs are crossing culture gaps The Chinese he noted are "really into dinosaurs W'e took one of the best Chinese dinosaur hunters through Utah this past summer He loved Canyonlands and invited Us all to Sichuan to dig up Chinese dinosaurs ") Bakker said that a century ago his theories about dmosauu arid their extirction ' would not have seemed Most scientists believed heretical then that dinosaurs did not become entirely extinct that birds were the direct descendants of dinosaurs "But that truth sort of got lost in the 1920s '30s and '40s I don't know exactly why Brobably because a lot of second-ratminds got into dinosaurs and the really good people went off into horse fossils or primate fossils There are never a lot of paleontologists so a little social shift in interest can affect the field" There wasn't just one age of dinosaurs Bakker believes there were about 80 “That's a heck of a long period of time like Egyptian dynastic history Wave after wave after wave And lots of invasions and interventions and turmoil and crises It's interesting Baleontology is history and I find history very interesting " Bakker maintains that the traditional view of dinosaurs as cold- blooded swamp-boun- monsters makes no historical sense "Dinosaurs dominated for 160 million years Our class was there — the warmblooded hairy critters W'e were around for that whole time But we were all stuck in the role of hair-bal- l We were tiny little balls of fluff with quivering noses and we couldn't evolve into anything else When the dinosaurs the big ones went extinct then suddenly our class took off We started evolving into Labrador retrievers Guernseys and chimpanzees If you believe that dinosaurs were coldblooded how do you explain that history'1 How do you ex plain dinosaurs suppressing our evolution for so long’ It doesn t make sense at all " The first dinosaur jaw ever found was studied by an English physician in the early 1800s according to Bakker "He looked at it and said 'This animal chewed its food like an ox chews ' That was an incredibly portentous statement Because an ox is a warmblooded animal and must chew its tood thoroughly to digest the food quickly because it needs energy rigid away all the time The giant tortoise doesn't have to chew thoroughly They can take two weeks to digest a meal So the first statement ever made about dinosaur chewing was a statement about warmbloodedness'' By looking at the knee thigh and elbow of a dinosaur Bakker argues it is evident that the creatures are not constructed at all like a lizard The tyrannosaurus rex is built like a five-toroad runner not a five-tolizard or turtle "You've got all the strength built into it that you would need to keep a road runner's speed and agility at 10000 pounds" An Bakker said is a one-toroad runner "You've got a pair of them mounted right there in Utah If you wait until Thanksgiving bring your turkey bones to the museum and compare them to the allosaurus bump for bump they're extraordinarily similar Wild turkeys can run like the wind allosaur is just an engineer's model scaled up If instead of a turkey you wanted a 3000-pouna computer turkey would come up with the allosaurus" Bakker had some observations on our own species "Homo sapiens is the animal that sculpts " Neanderthals couldn't sculpt or paint and we now know Bakker said that they are not our species at all "Modern bones bones that look like you and me first appeared only 20000 to 25000 years ago And art appeared about the same time Humanness evolved rather suddenly and completely The fact is our species wants to know Our sense of the aesthetic is why we study dinosaurs We've got n “Outlaw” paleontologist Robert Bakker will discuss his revolutionary ideas on dinosaurs Wednesday at Kingsbury Hall d to have art and history and science and music for its ow n sake We've jot to know No culture can survive without it " Incidentally Bakker contributed many plans for the animated creatures in the Dinamation exhibit at the Museum of Natural History When that show ends alter Dec 31 dinosaurs will again be extinct in Utah Lectures on dinosaurs continue in the U of U Fine Arts Auditorium on consecutiv e Wednesdays at 7 30 p m Admission is $1 Oct 26 — Baleontologist John R Horner a curator at the Museum of the Rockies Bozeman Mont will discuss ' Family Life of Dinosaurs" I’hure park Nov 2 — Daniel paleontologist and curator at Dinoi saur National Monument will explore the landscape and animals that coexisted w ith dinosaurs in the late Jurassic period Nov 9 — Donald F Glut the author of several dinosaur books who made a novel out of the motion picture "The Empire Strikes Back" will pi esent Fantasv Dinosaurs of the Mov les 1 (Utah-t'ol-orado- Dukakis’ track record on the arts better than that of Bush By Judith Michaelson Los Angeles Times Writer Vice President George Bush loves country music and the songs of Loretta Lynn "That's what he listens to all the time" says the vice president's sister Nancy Ellis Gov Michael S Dukakis favors chamber music and string quartets although he plays the trumpet His wife Kitty says the Massachusetts governor didn't appreciate modern dance until “1 took him to his first concert at Jacob's Pillow" in the summer of 1962 Kitty Dukakis has been a modern dancer and taught dance Her father Harry Ellis Dickson was a member of the first violin section of the Boston Symphony and associate conductor of the Boston Pops John Dukakis her son by her first marriage has been an actor And everyone knows potential “first cousin" Olympia Dukakis who runs a theater in New Jersey and won the Oscar as best supporting actress for her role in “Moonstruck" Familial arts connections — and coincidence — abound in 1988 presidential politics The Grand Old Party candidate's sister who recently left the board of overseers of the Boston Symphony has been a dinner guest at the Democratic nominee's father-in-law'- s home Sister-in-laPatty Bush is on the board of the St Louis Museum of Art Brother Jonathan Bush of New York had a brief career as a man before he married For her part the vice president's wife Barbara Bush is active in the fight against illiteracy All that aside what would a Bush administration or a Dukakis administration mean for the arts and who might play key roles" Would Dukakis or Bush be better" Or is it a toss-up- " e The nominees' possible arts policies may be reflected in the context of the broader electoral campaign Neither candidate in policy statements on the arts ev idences any sort of real departure from other statements made on the campaign trail However Bush may give more support for the arts in terms of fed eral dollars than the Reagan administration had been wailing to allocate in its first seven out of eight budgets And Bush's campaign in response to questions from the Los Angeles Times indicated that the vice presi- dent might want a different approach from the US Information Agency on the matter of licensing documentary films for foreign distribution than President Reagan apparently has had As on other issues for better or worse Bush is saddled with Reagan administration policies on the arts: Dukakis’ arts policies in Massachusetts are considered by arts leaders to be among the best in the nation While Bush paints broad brushstrokes of policy and some glittering generalities in several paragraphs on the arts in a statement issued by the Bush-Quayl- campaign e Dukakis outlines a considerably more detailed program along with some glitpolitering generalities in a cy paper entitled “A Presidency That Celebrates the Arts" Attitudes also were gleaned from a survey conducted by the American Council of the Arts — much of Bush's statement is a repeat of remarks in that survey — and from party platform statements The Republicans had a full page of platform statement on the arts and humanities under the overall heading of “Educating for the Future" The sparest Democratic platform in 50 years simply lists "the arts and humanities" among items the nation needs to "expand support for " Bush and the GOP platform point to a sound economy and private giving as the way to enhance support for the arts Dukakis saving "achievements in the arts" are "inseparable" from economics points to "my state of Massachusetts" w here "our booming economy is due in part to our vibrant arts scene As president Bush said in his statement he would "continue policies that provide for freedom of expression and general economic proWe should also sperity encourage partnerships between the public and private sectors to support artistic excellence and make it available to all Americans " The party platform pledges to "continue the Republican economic renaissance which has made possible a tremendous outpouring of support to the arts and humanities" and "oppose the politicization of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities " 3'-pa- On the key issue of federal spending for the arts Bush says he "sup- ports” the National Endowment for the Arts the independent agency that gives matching grants to arts organizations and artists and contributes to state and local arts agencies The platform pledges to "support" the two endowments as well as the Institute for Museum Services — the relatively tiny agency handling museum operating grants that the Reagan administration for the first six years tried to abolish Dukakis would "bolster ' the arts endowment and "end the annual assault on its budget We now spend as much on military bands as we do on the NEA" he said Currently the arts endowment receives $ 1 677 million the humanities endowment receives $140 4 million and museum serv ices receives $21 9 million In fiscal 1989 beginning Oct 1 NEA is expected to receive $169 million NEH $153 million and IMS $223 million Frank Hodsoll and Lynne Cheney who chair the arts and humanities endowments respectively and are close to Bush indicate a Bush administration would recommend funding at about fiscal 1989 levels Whoever comes into office added Cheney w ill "be constrained by the fact that we are in fiscally stringent times " As president Dukakis said in his policy paper that he would establish ' "five-yea- r American Creator grants funded by "a new grant program" to "our best artists from all cultural traditions " Dukakis also pledges to bring t he t National Arts Stabilization Fund ' to all 50 states and join hands with corporate America to assist arts institutions to work with state and local governments to ensure that arts planning is part of community planning" to "work to provide affordable housing for artists and adequate rehearsal and performance space " and encourage international arts exchanges to foster peace In his arts paper Dukakis attacked the I S I n foi mat mi Agencv which has begun to label certain foreign documentary films propaganda hi order to limit their distribution" and he criticized the State Department for deriving 'entrance to prominent international artists and writers Gabriel Gama Manpiez won non-profi- ' the Nobel Prize for Literature yet he has been forbidden to come to the United States" he said In response the Bush campaign said he is "strongly opposed to government censorship of films As he would of course president insist that the information agency's methods of certification be in accordance with the Constitution " A spokesman for the campaign said the vice president supports the State Department's decision on any specific individual's entrance into the country Dukakis and Bush have more similarities in arts policies than might be expected Both stress the importance of the arts as a requirement in education Both stand behind the Tax Reform Act of 1986 to the dismay of arts advocates who decry the loss of deductions to cultural institutions for and oppose requirements that those who donate gifts of appreciated property become subject to stringent rules of an alternative minimum tax Dukakis also promised in his policy paper to strongly support arts programs that recognize our diversi" ty as a culture Bush noted that "the arts provide for that diversity of expression that is peculiarly American reflecting our many different origins Both candidates pay homage to the arts not only for their economic value but also as a statement about our civilization and say they will honor artists in their White House "The arts community is optimistic whichever administration comes in" said Anne Murphv executive director of the American Arts Alliance the nation's arts advocacy organization in Washington Reagan s lega" cy to the arts is exhausted Most arts leaders breathe a sigh of relief remembering the first Reagan budget which sought to cut funding in half for the arts and humanities endowments and the administrations repeated attempts to dismantle museum services Each tune Congress — led by Rep Sidney R Yates D ill chairman of the subcommittee that handles the arts budget — prevented the cuts Only this year for fiscal 1989 did the idmuustiation accept current funding levels However Milton Rhodes presi dent of the American Council for the Arts an arts services organization based in New York said that in evaluating the nominees "You have to get jiast the rhetoric into the depth of commitment in the past and Dukakis has a splendid record" in Massa- chusetts As for Bush Rhodes said I ni try" ing to be positive He addl'd that it s "hard to find a positive in the Reagan administration in the past few years although "the emphasis by the endowment on arts education is on the right track Hodsoll — citing figures from the American Association of Fund Raisorgaing Counsel a New York-basenization that tracks private giving — said that private support for the arts and humanities doubled during the Reagan rears from $3 2 billion in 1980 to $6 4 billion in 1987 or "19 times the endowment's budget (Nathan Weber editor of Giving I SA which gauges all charitable contributions for the association pointed out that ever since 1955 "virtually every category of giving recipient — religion education health and so forth — keeps going up Total giv ing in all he added "is estimated categories at $93 7 billion ") Asked about private giving for the arts Rhodes sighed ' It doesn't feel that way on the streets There has been a shifting or the appearance of a shifting of giving to more dire causes like AIDS drug abuse and the homeless " As a governor for 10 years Dukakis has more of a track record on the arts than Bush In 1966 as a state legislator he sponsored the legislation for the Massachusetts Council on the rts and Humanities In 1988 with a state appropriation of $21 6 million Massachusetts ranked second in the nation in per capita spending on the arts and second in overall dollars spent While the state s 1989 budget for the arts was trimmed back to $19 5 million it is quite likely the state will still rank second m its arts budget Dukakis speai headed a $35 mil lion bond issue this spi mg for M SS MOCA 'the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporaiy Art' to build the vvoilds largest museum of conlem-poiuiart on the site ol 28 old elec-totiic factorv buddings in North Adams North dams is in an economically depressed area in the Berkshire's in western Massachus-sett- s According to Anne Hawley executive director of the state arts council since 1977 Dukakis emphasizes new works and international exchange in arts policies without neglecting the nitty gritty of good design for bridges and landscaped turnpike exit ramps Hawley said in a telephone interview from Boston that t Ik council currently budgets about $1 million for new works and about $800 000 for importing contemporary artworks from all over the world Beyond setting arts budgets and hosting glittering arts evenings at the White House the next president will influence arts policy through thC power of appointment Appointments will be made to the top jiosts at the arts and humanities endow ments as well as to the Federal Communications Commission which regulates telev ision and radio licensing the Federal Trade Commission which deals with guidelines for TV and radio advertising and the Corp for Public Broadcasting which distributes federal funds to radio and TY The (resident appoints the chairmen of the above — with the exception of the public broadcasting board which elects its own chairman By law the number of commissioners and Cl’B board members have certain limits based on party affiliation Appointments must tie confirmed by the Si nite Frank Hodsoll s second four-yeaterm as chairman ol the National Endowment for the Arts is up m November 1989 Lvnne Cheney s first term as chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities is uji in May 1990 Both say Kiev intend to sen e their terms ev en if Michael Dukakis is elected Should Dukakis win lie is expected to draw on some state associates for arts posit ions (it course the most inlluential ieison on tic aits m a Dukakis Ad-inisi i at ion juobablv would tie Kit He Dukakisl and his ty Dukakis wife did tlie final shaping of the pohn pnpei Haw lev noted r i i SyERjOAtiEtfERYNIfE Monel’s unique view of London illustrated in new exhibit By Stan Darden United Press International ATLANTA — Art lovers familiar with Claude Monet's beautiful mi pressiomst paintings of the Fiench countryside now have the oppoi turn ty to see his view of London m an exciting new exhibit at the High Mu seum of Art “Monet in London" which opened Oct 9 and runs through Jan 8 lea tures 22 of the original 37 paintings Monet completed of the Thames liiv er and other landmarks between 1899 and 1904 when they in Paris It is the first time since 1904 that such a series has been assembled foi exhibition with many of the works loaned from private collections and major museums and galleries mostly in Noitli Amciiea Donald Rosenthal the museum s wen-show- Mlp sr A European art curator said the exhibition is the first to focus on one of Monet's series as an entity Rosenthal said the idea for the Monet exhibit was proposed five years ago by Grace Seibcrling an art lusto-iprofessor at the University of Rochester N Y Rosenthal worked at the school's Memorial Art Galleiy lack of money kept them from putting a show together but Rosenthal brought the idea with him to At lmta Sciberlmg organized the current show and wrote the siholulv notes for the accompanying catalog Rosenthal said Monet s London senes was selected bemuse it was the most important after his great late '(lies of "Water Lilies paintings The fact that the High Museum owns avervfme Houses of Pat ha mild lie show n m tins context also was a dei idmg lac men! w hl( h ( tor Rosenthal said Houses of Parliament in the Fog" which the High Museum ae qmred in 1960 is a view of the fain oils buildings suffused with colot and light The work demonstrates Monet s function as a link between 19th ectitu: y impressionism and i 20th century action Monet was nearly 59 and already a successful aitist when he took up residence in the Savoy Hotel to begin work on his London paintings He chose three motifs — the t'liarmc ('loss and Waterloo bridges which spanned the Thames and the Houses of Parliament alongside the river Monet always painted the familial landmarks from the same places — the bridges fioni the window of hs room in the Sav ov and the Houses of Pat liameiit Horn the windows of si I limnas Hospital ' ab-d- Fog that inescapable fact of Lon don life fascinated Monet said Sci berlmg so love London' but love it nnlv vv it h t tie inter fog I'm vv it h mil the fog London wmildn t tie a Monet vviole Ins beautiful eitv wile Alice m 1899 It is the tog that gives London its mu gin k cut Those massive legulu bicudth film ks lien une gl and lose vv lull that m vv ' mv Mci imis ( loak The paintings show Die foggy nv (i and ci tv sin round mg it undei gi av skies oi w hen the sun pencil at oil the accmd log or illuminated smoke mg to the catalog notes To paint so n in ti x views of thesi till aspects of a single 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