Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...pinpoint. Despite a few grisly touches, the show has little to offend in terms of sex or violence. Its distinctiveness is almost purely a matter of style. The pace is slow and hypnotic, the atmosphere suffused with creepy foreboding, the emotions eerily heightened. The news of Laura Palmer's murder inspires spasms of grief in everyone from the girl's mother to the crew-cut school principal, who bursts into tears after announcing her death over the p.a. system. In other hands, this might be melodramatic; in Lynch's, it has the scalding intensity of a nightmare...
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...
...latter who are looked upon as encroachers. "I've heard more anti-Japanese sentiment in working-class bars than I can remember," says Richard Kjeldsen, a University of Southern California financial specialist on the Pacific Rim. Japan bashing easily becomes Asian bashing. The most famous case is the 1982 murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin by Detroit autoworkers who thought he was Japanese. As late as 1985 and 1986, violence against Asians jumped 50% in Los Angeles County. Says Henry Der of Chinese for Affirmative Action: "We're still vulnerable because of what we look like...
Gonzalez, meanwhile, had calmly returned to his room. He was arrested there, still in bed twelve hours later. His only explanation: "I got angry. The devil got into me." Gonzalez was indicted by a grand jury on 87 counts of felony murder, the most lodged against anyone in U.S. history...
...Henry (played with hollow-eyed precision by Michael Rooker), murder is a vocation. He is compelled to do it and does it well, but the job gives him little pleasure. Only his friend Otis (Tom Towles) feels the thrill of the kill. Otis is the sickest person in the movie; he takes to torture like a born-again sadist. Only his sweet sister Becky (Tracy Arnold) has much hope of touching poor Henry. She will be his best hope or his last victim...