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...President Joan Ganz Cooney explains that her team wants "to build an appetite for science, not force feed it." Elementary-school teachers, responding to CTW's announcement of the show, have requested 100,000 copies of a free classroom guide. Though the show will generally be aired after school, the Friday program, which reviews the week's material, will also be broadcast during morning hours for classroom...
...Joan Ganz Cooney, president of the Children's Television Workshop and a director of four corporations, on keeping up appearances at board meetings: "Sure, it's a killer. But I'm determined to die pretty...
...American Friend. Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, who also authored the novel that was the source of the Hitchcock classic "Strangers on a Train," Wim Wenders' new thriller is frighteningly effective. Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper turn in the best performances of their careers as a dying Swiss picture framer and a psychologically-shattered American who helps manipulate the picture framer into murdering an upper-echelon Mafioso, and Wenders' sharp eye and dramatic sense hone the film to a remarkably fine edge...
...woman to conduct at the New York Metropolitan Opera (TIME, Nov. 10). Journalist Charlotte Curtis wields powerful political influence as editor of the New York Times Op-Ed page. NBC-TV's Barbara Walters, co-host of the Today show, is one of the best interviewers in journalism. Joan Ganz Cooney, who launched Sesame Street in 1969, now presides over the Children's Television Workshop, is a member of the media-monitoring National News Council and a director of Xerox and the First Pennsylvania Corp...
...Joan Ganz Cooney, 44, revolutionized children's television in 1969 when she began producing Sesame Street for the Public Broadcasting Service. A former NBC publicity director, she now presides over the nonprofit Children's Television Workshop, Inc., which produces 130 segments of Sesame Street and 130 of Electric Company each year. Elegant and outspoken, Mrs. Cooney has served on the President's Commission on Drug Abuse and was recently appointed to the media-monitoring National News Council. In the past year she has formed two C.T.W. subsidiaries to produce shows for commercial TV and ease Sesame Street...