Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democratic ghosts from the past came back to Washington on Tuesday to raise once again the twin policy spectres that have bedeviled the Clinton administration?s second term: China and campaign finances. Johnny Chung, the controversial Democratic fund-raiser who pleaded guilty last year to making illegal campaign contributions, was called in by Republicans to testify before the House Government Reform Committee about his contacts with various Chinese officials and executives, including the head of Chinese military intelligence. While his testimony revealed few new details, his appearance on the Hill gave the Clinton administration another bad China day. "Coming...
...find it coincidental that I was on the air for a year and a half, and my real name is Vicki, and there appeared a character named Vicki dressed like my twin on a new show. They basically copied our set, and there's all the characters with their names different...
...Sade were cloned twice and the resulting twin sisters were reared in France by members of the Fugees, the women might sound something like the French singing team Les Nubians. Sisters Helene and Celia Faussart have a warm, engaging sound that blends smooth jazz, soft pop and warm R. and B. with a dash of danceable hip-hop. There are an emotional generosity and a spiritual depth on this album that come through on every track...
...cost of $7 million, this is hardly a typical 2-hr. TV pilot. But Lynch isn't your average director-producer; and Mulholland Drive, his first dramatic series since Twin Peaks nine years ago, isn't likely to be just another police or legal drama. And that makes it just the kind of show that is becoming the trademark of Imagine Television...
...stand-in for the writer-director, who in Scanners, Videodrome, Crash and The Fly has dealt creepily and eloquently with the disintegration of mind and body. eXistenZ, where Leigh and Jude Law get into a virtual reality game and can't get out, is more modest than its current twin, The Matrix, but it pulses with a furtive fury that's pure Cronenberg. Like the virtual game he plays on us, the film is weird, it's addictive, and Lord, it's alive...