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That's not to say that the coverage has been or will be bad, or not comprehensive. Boston's WNEV-TV, Channel 7, for instance, is providing extensive pool coverage of the three convocations as well as several symposia, and will air a one-hour special on Harvard Saturday night. The station will also air today's speech by Prince Charles live, and air special reports throughout the celebration...
Some politicians would shed no tears if the network were to meet that fate. Channel 4's news and public affairs programs often seem calculated to rock the boat. A series called Opinions gives a public figure 30-min. of airtime each week to expound on a controversial topic (Germaine Greer on Margaret Thatcher, Edward Teller on nuclear defense). Channel 4's 50-min. nightly newscast skips crime reports and the doings of royalty in favor of probing political analyses and stories on business, science and the arts. A 1985 documentary touched off a political scandal when it revealed that...
...Channel 4 movies that have become art-house hits in the U.S. are products of an ambitious effort to wed cinema and television: the network has co-funded more than 70 feature films. Its purely TV offerings have appeared more spottily in this country, but the sampling has been impressive. The Price, for example, is a suspense thriller that transcends its genre by an uncompromising, morally complex examination of the characters involved; 26 Bathrooms, a tongue-in-cheek tour of lavish and eccentric British lavatories, is the sort of loopy project one could never imagine on American TV. Though much...
Isaacs hopes that Channel 4's adventurous, often abrasive fare will reach a wider audience in this country. "Americans say they love British TV, but virtually nothing from British TV is shown on American television," he contends. "Most of what is shown is the worst of what we do. Masterpiece Theatre concentrates on simple, safe costume dramas." Simple and safe: two words that do not seem to exist in Channel 4's lexicon...
...husband, Yakutat Mayor Larry Powell, agrees. While it is possible that the ice dam will give way under mounting water pressure behind it, there is no guarantee. He suggests that a channel be dug from the lake to the sea, bypassing the Situk so that the trapped water can escape without affecting the river. Others propose bombing the glacier: controlled explosions could blast a trench through the ice itself. But speed may be essential. Says Powell: "We're just now entering the rainy season, and at the rate it's filling, the lake could be ready to make its jump...