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Other segments from the episode on April 30, 1990
Writing Simone de Beauvoir's Biography.
Biographer Deirdre Bair. Her latest book is a biography of French writer, intellectual and feminist Simone De Beauvoir. Bair has also written a biography of Samuel Beckett.
Choreographer and Dancer Laura Dean on the "Natural High" of Spinning.
Choreographer and dancer Laura Dean. Her company's performing a two-week retrospective at the Joyce Theater in New York (through May 6).
Why "Twin Peaks" is Doing So Well in the Ratings.
Television critic David Bianculli takes another look at the ABC series "Twin Peaks."
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