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Different media have different thresholds for scandal. Controversy in the movies might mean making a film that glorifies one of the nation's most repugnant pornographers. Controversy in literature might mean writing a memoir about the affair you had with your father when you were in your 20s. In television, which functions not just as a business and debased art form but also as an increasingly fractured nation's de facto mirror of itself, the threshold is much lower. Controversy could mean starring in a sitcom as a gently scatterbrained former bookstore owner who, after years of adult floundering, reluctantly...
...like there really is, unless you call social psychosis addiction. And it's not even like that, that you need a cigarette. And that chart your friend drew correlating the number of drinks to the number of cigarettes, with the threshold at two Heinekens, that's funny, and somewhat true, but statistically inaccurate...
...have a low sap threshold," says FRANCES MCDORMAND, who was worried that Paradise Road, a wrenching tale of a women's prisoner of war camp, might cross it. But McDormand's character is so nonsappy she's almost surly. "It was really gratifying to me that after 15 years of work they thought, 'If she can do a Minnesotan police chief, she can do a German Jew,'" says McDormand of the difference between this role and her Oscar-nominated performance in Fargo. Right now life is nothing like a prison camp. "I'm picking out shoes and dresses...
...invitations and bar most party-related activities from government buildings. But with the flood of new evidence being released, there are more calls for a special prosecutor. Attorney General Janet Reno continues to resist, claiming she still hasn't seen sufficient evidence of lawbreaking by high government officials, the threshold requirement. Reno promises to reconsider after a Justice Department task force concludes its ongoing investigation, which could take several months...
...rivers carved into it. The result is a series of gigantic "steps," each more than 900 ft. tall and named after the characteristic color of its rocks: Pink Cliffs, Gray Cliffs, White Cliffs, Vermilion Cliffs. The monument's center is so remote that ambient noise can drop below the threshold of human hearing...