Word: twins
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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...
...these shows for anything but warmed-over variations on All in the Family and Mission: Impossible. The most audacious hits of the past few seasons -- thirtysomething, The Wonder Years, The Simpsons -- did not invent new genres, but at least they invested them with a distinctive style or voice. Even Twin Peaks did not depart radically from the conventions of TV soap operas: what the audience responded to was Lynch's idiosyncratic take on the format...
David Lynch's Twin Peaks was expected to augur more experimentation and risk taking at the networks. But the promised creative revolution still seems to be a long...
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...
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...