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...Victorian cameo of exquisite youth, a headstrong girl trembling on the threshold of womanhood in last year's Oscar-winning A Room with a View. Now Helena Bonham Carter, 21, is blushing again, this time as the heroine of A Hazard of Hearts, an upcoming CBS-TV movie based on the 1949 gothic romance by Barbara Cartland, 85. Author met actress during the filming at a 19th century mansion in Lincolnshire. Jokes Bonham Carter: "She immediately told me how to emanate innocence from my solar plexus. I had a disadvantage because I'm a brunet." Cartland admits that "at first...
...many candidates sounding like virtuous, angry populists, it is doubtful that any one of them can collect heavy dividends from the theme of righteousness alone. Similarly, marital fidelity by itself is not going to be a big draw. Instead, these will probably prove to be what pollsters call "threshold issues" -- standards to which the candidates must measure up simply to stay in contention. Some candidates will have more difficulty than others. Nevada Republican Paul Laxalt, for instance, was once part of his state's gambling industry and is still pressing a libel suit against a newspaper chain, which, he claims...
...years of astronomical history are any guide, astronomers say, a supernova visible to the naked eye should occur in or near the Milky Way galaxy four times every thousand years or so. But from 1604 to 1987, none were recorded. (The supernova of 1885, just on the threshold of visibility in the night sky, took place in the Andromeda galaxy, 2.2 million light-years away.) To be sure, many stars flared up during this interval. But astronomers now know they were not supernovas but nearby novas. These are shorter-lived events, caused by the sudden explosion of gases...
Those who tend Washington decade after decade have many faults, but there are splendid moments when the best rise to defend this ungainly democracy. When Lyndon Johnson passed the acceptable threshold of bloodshed in Viet Nam, the political establishment weighed in. Richard Nixon violated the law andthe threshold of decency in Watergate, and the city exposed and expelled him. Reagan crossed a threshold of mismanagement, and is being called to account...
...would have no way to respond." A recent report by the National Petroleum Council, an industry group that advises the Department of Energy, asserts that by 1990 OPEC will be producing at 80% of its capacity, as compared with 66% today. Historically, whenever OPEC has reached the 80% threshold, it has succeeded in imposing -- and sustaining -- oil-price hikes. The report estimates that the U.S. could be dependent on foreign supplies for 60% of its consumption by as early...