Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instant multiplatinum hit, with an initial pressing of 8 million copies. What remains to be seen is whether it can come even close to Jackson's 1982 Thriller, which sold 48 million copies worldwide. His label, Sony's Epic division, is coaxing customers with a huge promotional effort. Twin Peaks director David Lynch filmed a trailer playing in movie theaters and on TV. K Mart outlets are pushing the album in half a dozen locations in each store. Working against the hoopla: mixed reviews like Daily Variety's downbeat verdict that "this album won't be the economic miracle...
Seniors Ceci Clark and Tina Lawler managed to sweep the ball from potential scorers, and Loren Ambinder (Leslie's twin sister) tenaciously tackled back...
LIFE IS SWEET. Another brisk, weeny English comedy, and welcome as well. In a family out of a skewed sitcom, Mum and Dad try not to fret while their 21- year-old twin daughters offer up fun-house images of 21st century Britain: stoic and efficient or raging and aimless. Somehow, Mike Leigh's movie is hopeful. It says the nation will always survive adversity in the old-fashioned way: with a smile and a shrug...
...film history (The Night of the Hunter, Psycho, even Spielberg's shooting stars) and creates, in De Niro's character, a loner driven to impossible extremes by the voices inside him. He is brother to Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle and Raging Bull's Jake La Motta, and evil twin to Jesus in Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ...
Marden admired Jasper Johns -- a critic in the '70s brusquely but memorably wrote off an abstract twin-canvas picture by Marden as "Jasper's Painting with Two Balls, without the balls." And like Johns, he worked in a mixture of oil paint and wax, a false encaustic that gave his surfaces both substance and an inner glow, as if light were working its way through layers of slightly dusty translucency. You thought of it as skin. Marden was a brilliant colorist, in a very tuned-down way. His warm grays and brick reds, his low thick blues and his blocks...