Word: multiparter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Journalists, a cynical lot by nature, are often skeptical of press awards. As prizes have proliferated, they note, so has a certain genre of newspaper story: the multipart series that takes on a big subject, pursues it with crusading zeal and seems to run on forever. Such journalistic tomes frequently seem created as much to please award judges as to satisfy readers. "We're thinking about putting the following helpful advisory over them," syndicated Humor Columnist Dave Barry wrote this month. "'Caution! Journalism Prize Entry! Do Not Read...
...hours on CBS. Viewers are being beckoned onto the long Space flight after scarcely catching their breath from another extended TV voyage, NBC's twelve-hour tour of the early years of Christianity, A.D. Indeed, there has hardly been a respite all season from the parade of miniseries. Seven multipart dramas of three nights or more (as well as several two-parters) have been telecast since September; an eighth, CBS's Christopher Columbus, is coming...