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...even Lynch must know that every fad must fade. Any enthusiasm with the velocity of Twin Peaks mania is bound to boomerang. "Fame is an unnatural thing," says Mark Frost, Lynch's TV partner and Twin Peaks co-producer. "There is no equivalent to it in the animal kingdom." A director on the edge gets critical indulgences when he steps into the mainstream; a director on top is ripe for a raspberry. The trick for Lynch is to keep the ebb of acclaim from affecting either his work or his attitude toward...
...Moscow stooge back in 1981 or a Polish patriot making an unpopular move to prevent the bloodbath of a Soviet invasion? Was he as pivotal a political player during the 1980s as trade-union leader Lech Walesa, or was his just a walk-on part that will quickly fade in memory...
...week and more than 460 points, or 16%, below its July 16 high of just under 3000. But no one could be sure that the worst was over. Some markets, notably bonds, kept right on going down. More important, the threat of war has not begun to fade, and the markets are operating on a frightening equation: war equals oil shortages equals skyrocketing petroleum prices equals an upsurge in general inflation plus sagging profits, lower production and more unemployment -- all at the same time. J. Richard Fredericks, a banking analyst at Montgomery Securities, a San Francisco brokerage, summarizes the thinking...
...dissipate concern over what remains to be done. Talks between the A.N.C. and Pretoria are not expected to resume until mid-July. In the meantime, whatever hope there may have been in South Africa that Mandela's release would quickly usher in a new multiracial democracy has begun to fade. Now activists say it is important to draw attention to De Klerk's failure to take such steps as lifting the Internal Security Act, which permits thousands of South Africans to be imprisoned without trial. "We have to think about civil disobedience again," says Robinson. "Our challenge is to help...
...stage was set for a demonstration of that unhappy feeling as the province prepared for its "national" holiday, St. Jean Baptiste Day, on June 24. It augured to be one of the most fervent expressions of nationalist sentiment that Quebec had seen for decades. Such passions may not fade easily. Last week it was difficult to see through the shattered accord how Canada might put the pieces back together again...