Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confronting the audience in the first scene with George and Lennie's desperate flight from a lynch party, the viewer becomes riveted to the action of the film and consumed by questions about the identify of the two escapees and the reason for their escape. In reshaping the wife's role for an audience concerned about women's issues...
...sludge is helping opponents mobilize against MERCO and build support for a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general to force the EPA to require an environmental-impa ct statement from MERCO. "We're trading a few short-term jobs for our way of life," argues antisludge organizer Linda Lynch. Supporters retort that the sludge will eventually revitalize depleted rangelands. Exxon station owner Andy Virdell, who has seen other ventures die in the hardscrabble desert, is ecstatic. "Sure, we'd rather have an electronics plant here," he says, "but in this economy we have to be thankful for anything...
...David Lynch circus is back. While Mark Frost is happy to leave the town he helped make a prime-time legend, his ex-partner is still living there, with all the warped ingenuousness of a rural kid who tells his friends, "Let's put the freak show on right here! Again!" TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME, Lynch's way-too-late prequel to the 1990 TV series, relates the last days of teen queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). After an agonizing first half-hour designed to empty the theater, Lynch unleashes his patented perfervid style, puts the familiar dwarfs...
...sadder disappointment. The ABC comedy comes from David Lynch and Mark Frost, who shook up network TV with their brilliantly perverse soap opera Twin Peaks. This time the pair have come up with a sitcom about a ragtag TV network in the 1950s. Must have sounded great in the story conferences...
Even with overtime production, the patch shortage is expected to last at least until early August. "We're only getting about 50% of what we could sell," says Carolyn Fray, spokeswoman for Rite Aid Corp., which owns 2,498 drugstores nationwide. Merrill Lynch analyst Richard Vietor estimates that sales will top $880 million this year and nearly $1 billion in 1993. (Six months ago, he predicted sales of only $150 million for all of 1992.) "This is overwhelmingly the biggest first-year market for any prescription product," he says...