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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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 »

WILD AT HEART. You may have thought David Lynch set the standard for weirdness with his TV series, but compared with his horrifically, hilariously violent new road movie, Twin Peaks is the Bobbsey Twins. Be awed -- and grateful -- that nobody else makes movies like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 3, 1990 | 9/3/1990 | 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 »

David Lynch is an industry these days. America's most distinctive moviemaker had directed just four features (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune and Blue Velvet) in a 15-year career, but now he's everywhere. His Twin Peaks brought flaming weirdness to prime-time television. He has directed TV commercials and a 25-minute music video. This fall he is co-producing a documentary series for the Fox network. And here's Wild at Heart, another three-ring freak show that won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and serves as an entertaining anthology of Lynch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wizard Of Odd | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

Carolyn Pitts runs her palm over the hand-tooled sandstone exterior of an old textile mill. "The stonework is marvelous," she says. "It was obviously ! meant to be a real showpiece." Built in 1849 in Cannelton, Ind., alongside the Ohio River, the brooding, fortress-like structure with twin turrets and heavily bracketed cornice was abandoned in the 1950s. Now the roof is a wreck, and starlings nest inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Outracing The Bulldozers | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

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