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...hottest new ticket on the cable dial: the film-noir thriller. Gotham, a moody mystery about a Manhattan detective (Tommy Lee Jones) investigating an enigmatic woman (Virginia Madsen) who is supposed to be dead, was Showtime's highest-rated made-for-TV movie in 1988. Third Degree Burn, starring Treat Williams as a private eye hired to tail another mysterious blond (Madsen again), was the most-watched original film on HBO last year. The USA Network, which is churning out made-for-TV films -- most of them murder mysteries -- at the rate of two a month, scored its best ratings...
...unlikely that politicians could write laws to improve communications in unhappy families, or keep teenagers from becoming pregnant, or provide wise and caring parents when they do. Still, making the argument against parental involvement is like arguing for the right to burn the American flag -- politically, it is a tough case no matter how right the reasoning. Now that the Supreme Court has put its stamp of approval on some notification laws, the two sides head back to the legislatures. Says Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL): "On the heels of this week...
...their fathers and grandfathers into the woods. They rise in the dark at 3 or 4 in the morning, pull up their suspenders and adjust rough hide pads on their left shoulders. The pads cradle the saws and, like trivets, shield the men from the hot blades that would burn their flesh through their flannel shirts. Their pants legs are tattered so that if they are suddenly snagged, the material will tear rather than hold. They do not wear steel-tipped shoes for fear that if a massive limb falls on their feet, it may turn the metal down...
...which had earlier bought nine of the planes. All told, Boeing has 161 foreign orders for airliners, which range in price from $35 million to $130 million apiece. Even small U.S. firms have made impressive inroads abroad. Trilling Medical Technologies, a Carlstadt, N.J., firm of 50 employees that sells burn-protection products, has seen its international sales increase 400% during the past year...
Barricading streets, burning cars and tossing petrol bombs are mostly summer events, when there are anniversaries to commemorate, school is out and nights are warm. It's a time when the air of Belfast is thin with the promise of excitement, and mothers pray for rain. "The lads don't go out and fight as much when it's raining," says Betty, 33. Four of her five brothers have done time, and her three sons are all adept at making petrol bombs. Even the six- year-old, whose forehead is blackened by a burn mark he got while making...