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...Eagle Has Two Heads also resembles Lynch's masterpiece, Twin Peaks, in its cast of eccentric and absorbing characters; a deaf-mute, a pathological count, and a crazy queen only head the list...

Author: By Elijah T. Siegler, | Title: An Unforgettable Fairy Tale | 11/16/1990 | See Source »

...billion over five years. The most controversial of these would cut the maximum levy on capital gains from 33% to 15%. Meanwhile, he seemed to reject any increase in income taxes for high earners. Concerning reductions in domestic spending -- the most politically explosive part of deficit control -- Bush was mute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fiscal Fairy Tale | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...came into common use, the rich, fragile jungle of the Everglades was destroyed, its birds and beasts annihilated, its waterways choked. The men responsible might never have heard of the word habitat, but they knew what they were doing, and for some, at least, hardness was tinged with a mute regret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wild Tread of God KILLING MISTER WATSON by Peter Matthiessen | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...completely mute. To keep myself from panicking, I imagined that I wasn't in an interview with 10 Harvard students smug in their knowledge that they knew so much more than me. I pretended I was a bird, soaring well overhead, flying free and fast and far and aiming my excrement right on the tops of their heads...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: No Respect For Practical Jokers | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

...remaining long-termers. Still, other governments seem impervious to criticism. "Each country is a separate case," notes Richard Reoch, information director of London-based Amnesty International. There are limits too to how hard foreign governments will press allies on human-rights issues. The U.S., for example, remained mute over the February executions in Indonesia. Yet while international pressure may not always work, it is the political prisoner's only protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persecution Repression's Hall of Shame | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

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