Word: twins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet finish that thought: the Weimar Republic gave way to Hitler's Third Reich. Yet that is what some Soviets seem to have in mind. They fear not only the worst from Germany's past but also something just as bad that may lurk in their own future. These twin dreads interact powerfully, if not quite logically. As Gorbachev at least tacitly acknowledges, in his country rationality is as scarce as soap these days. The outside world is a mirror into which Soviets look and wince...
First it was, Who Killed Laura Palmer? Now the big question is, Who Shot Agent Dale Cooper? But with Twin Peaks adjourned for the summer, the networks are pondering another, even deeper mystery. For help, they have called in Agent Cooper himself. We pick him up as he drives into a new town, dictating into his omnipresent tape recorder...
...driving events rather than reacting to them. In one of his boldest political gambles yet, he linked the implementation of economic reform -- higher prices, lower state subsidies and the introduction of some free-market mechanisms -- to a nationwide referendum. So much, he seemed to be saying, for the twin charges that he is unwilling to submit to genuine democracy and afraid of tough decisions. The immediate response of his fellow citizens was not encouraging. In Moscow and other cities, panicky shoppers stripped stores of what little remained on the shelves. Miners in the Donbass region who struck for three weeks...
...bizarre new comedy, Wild at Heart, eclipses once suppressed East European films to take the festival's top prize, just as word arrives that his TV series, Twin Peaks, has been renewed...
...Cannes for the world premiere of his new movie, David Lynch decided to leave his shoelace untied. "For good luck," he explained obliquely. As if the man from Twin Peaks needed luck last week. His all-time-odd TV series lured millions of addicted viewers to its season finale. ABC announced that the show would return in the fall. And to complete the hat trick, Lynch copped the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for Wild at Heart, the writer-director's latest affront to the cinematic status quo. Flanked by his radiant companion Isabella Rossellini, awash...