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However, the mirth is only the means to a more serious end. Ted Tally, who wrote a somber tribute to the moral courage of polar explorers in Terra Nova, now explores the contagious terrain of venality. He asks, in effect, How do creatures such as David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), Jim Jones and Gary Gilmore, men who occupy an appalling moral void, arc to celebrity status save for the vulpine collusion of the goldbugs - agents, publicists, the press, TV and films...
...awareness of the medium's power to teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate - celebrate. Bye Bye Brazil does just that, setting a naturalistic tale to a bossa nova beat. It follows a tatty caravan of entertainers through the backwaters of Bahia, making music and mischief and the occasional friend or lover. The glittery magic means more to the actors than it ever will to the villagers; the show must go on so that the showmen can continue...
Gingerich said he has worked on other science media events, consulted for Carl Sagan's show "Cosmos," and may help out on a project for Public Television's "Nova" series...
Television's interest grew too. In the early 1970s, PBS began importing BBC science specials, like Nigel Calder's programs on astronomy, physics, the new biology. In 1974, one of the PBS stations, WGBH in Boston, took the plunge with its own Nova series. Now, counting Nova, Sagan's Cosmos, and Miller's Body, PBS is running seven separate science series...
Another group of Blacks came from Nova Scotia and the West Indies--often more educated, and, according to the authors of the immigrant historyZone of Emergencepossessing "a directness of manner and felicity of speech which was most attractive," they tended at first not to mingle with the other Blacks, in some cases sending back to the islands for wives. But by 1920, when Everton Johnson arrived, many of the differences had been muted. "Evidently at one time there was not too happy a feeling, but they began to marry into each other, so that soon they were quite close...