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Like the wind that whistled through the Douglas firs in the town of Twin Peaks, a fresh breeze seemed to be blowing across the TV landscape last spring. The success of David Lynch's wild-at-heart soap opera forced network executives to make a fast reassessment. Twin Peaks defied some of TV's most basic dramatic rules -- it was too murky, too slow moving, too coy about solving its mystery -- yet it attracted a fanatically devoted audience. Viewers, it seemed, were a lot more willing to sample unusual, challenging fare than anyone had expected. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Novelty Is Only Skin Deep | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

This summer, workers removed dirt from the property, finished the garage facilities and erected the steel girders on the twin buildings. Masonry work on the exterior of the building has also begun, according to Levitan...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Cross-Campus Construction Transforms Harvard's Skyline | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

This summer, workers removed dirt from the property, finished the garage facilities and erected the steel girders on the twin buildings. Masonry work on the exterior of the building has also begun, according to Levitan...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Cross-Campus Construction Transforms Harvard's Skyline | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

This summer, workers removed dirt from the property, finished the garage facilities and erected the steel girders on the twin buildings. Masonry work on the exterior of the building has also begun, according to Levitan...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Cross-Campus Construction Transforms Harvard's Skyline | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...free market, have tolerated or even subtly promoted the oil price-fixing cartel. As part of the Nixon Doctrine in the early 1970s, the U.S. looked the other way as Saudi Arabia and Iran raised oil prices, hoping they would spend the money on military equipment and become the "twin pillars" of Middle East stability. (What a laugh! The Middle East military machines financed by high oil prices have been those of Ayatullah Khomeini and Saddam Hussein.) In 1986 Vice President George Bush actually went to Riyadh and begged the Saudis to reduce oil production in order to "stabilize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Why Are We in Saudi Arabia? | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

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