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...some homes, it makes a terrific coaster. In others, it is a well-thumbed compendium of the week's TV programming, whose surrounding color pages are ignored. Yet for 36 years TV Guide has maintained a sturdy, if seldom appreciated, tradition of editorial quality in those pages. Along with celebrity profiles and background stories on upcoming programs, the magazine has done much enterprising reporting on the TV industry. Most notably, in 1982 it ran a 13-page story exposing alleged ethical violations during the making of the CBS documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception -- charges that formed...
...beverage, of course, is wine, which is the subject of a convivial yet scholarly 13-part series that appears on public television this month. In lesser hands, such a project could have been a mind-numbing compendium of trivia about Brix levels and Appellations Controlees. As written and narrated by Hugh Johnson, Vintage: A History of Wine is an excursion into cultural history, enlivened by the author's pithy insights on ritual, commerce and warfare...
...journey to the bottom of Robbins' trunk? If Broadway is not making 'em the way it used to, should we be regretful? Or relieved? If neither revivals from Broadway's heyday nor imitations of that style lead to commercial success, then does this logical next step, a greatest-hits compendium, offer much hope...
...Administration finally admitted last year that homelessness was an "unprecedented crisis" when the President signed the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, a compendium of programs covering everything from job training to food assistance. The act authorized the spending of $1 billion over two years, but attorneys for the homeless had to sue the Government to get the funds moving out of a clogged federal pipeline. The $500 million in first-year funds, haphazardly distributed in hundreds of U.S. cities, so far has done little tangible good. Last February, Reagan signed the Housing and Community Development Act, which provides assistance...
...convened to consider "How many nipples on a cow's udder?" The answer: "It appears that there are four, although the cow was given a plan for five." Hard-to-get consumer goods arrive in shops overnight, goods that "we thought were entered in the Red Book," a Soviet compendium of rare and extinct plant and animal species...