Word: priming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is decimating their ranks, but the couture business -- increasingly nervous about its image with consumers and investors, and struggling to find a new direction in a sluggish retail market -- remains nearly silent about the disease that is carrying off some of its most famous names in their creative prime...
...union, political party, shaper of the country's future. But hopes that the breakup would be amicable now look unlikely. The problem stems from an old hero. Lech Walesa wants to be President by forcing an early election. But most Solidarity legislators seem to prefer remaining in government and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Even though his drastic economic reforms have cut living standards as much as 40%, polls of Poles show that he is more popular than Walesa. Lech is sulking in Gdansk...
...dash of Columbo, a jot of Knots Landing. But in the darkly idiosyncratic world of director David Lynch, terms like murder mystery and soap opera don't begin to tell the tale. Twin Peaks, which debuts Sunday as a two-hour movie, is like nothing you've seen in prime time -- or on God's earth. It may be the most hauntingly original work ever done for American...
...also something of a miracle. Imagine: one of the world's most perversely offbeat movie directors persuades ABC to let him try a prime-time series. He shoots a pilot with virtually no interference. The network bigwigs look at the result, realize that it will probably befuddle many viewers, then decide to air it anyway. The programmers even consider -- horrors! -- showing the two-hour pilot without commercials. (Cooler heads prevail; the show will have ads, though fewer than usual.) It's enough to restore one's faith in television...
Kremlin atheists quietly supervise the selection of Moscow's Russian Orthodox Patriarchs. Turkey's government leaders, though Muslims, are said to weigh in when Ecumenical Patriarchs are chosen. But imagine Italy's Prime Minister appointing a Pope, or President Bush picking the Presiding Bishop of his Episcopal Church. Just such a church-state mesh will occur in Britain in the coming months as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prepares to choose the next Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of some 70 million Anglicans and Episcopalians worldwide...