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...million mock-up of small-town America opened in 1987, after the FBI decided its fledgling agents needed more true-to-life experience before they % dealt with dangerous criminals. Says the make-believe town's make-believe mayor, Jim Pledger, a 24-year FBI veteran: "Crime doesn't unfold in a classroom. We realized we could no longer limit ourselves to a square brick building...
...rage in the "charnel house" of Soweto, the largest black township created by that apartheid. Alas, the conflict of genealogy and emotion tends to produce more heat than light. In a typical episode, Malan recalls a psychopath who murdered whites with a hammer; Simon Mpungose's story "seemed to unfold like the story of a saint, deeply disturbing in its biblical parallels." This romantic notion of violence feels like a hangover from the '60s, and it has no place in a South Africa that aspires to a place in the community of civilized nations...
Whether Twin Peaks will work as a continuing series remains to be seen. The second episode (co-written by Lynch but directed by Duwayne Dunham) shifts into more conventional gear as the murder investigation begins to unfold. At worst, Twin Peaks could turn into an aesthete's version of "Who Shot J.R. ?" At best, it will be mesmerizing...
After Mssrs. Holmes and Mason declined the case, I was summoned to investigate. As I watched the action unfold after the intermission, I eliminated suspects...
Bush thus finds himself defending the Social Security tax increase while getting pummeled by Moynihan and his allies. Watching this spectacle unfold last week, Bruce Thompson, a Merrill Lynch executive who helped slash taxes as a senior Treasury official during the Reagan Administration, chuckled and noted that "not in ten years have you seen headlines read WHITE HOUSE REJECTS...