Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PBS presents Beethoven and the Beach Boys
CANAL ZONE. PBS...
...come. This implied promise of livelier things to come also helps get us through a middle passage where Roy Scheider, as the punk criminal, and Bruno Cremer, as the banker, are seen to suffer interminable misery in some of the most squalid squalor anybody this side of a PBS documentarian has put on a screen in a long time. Friedkin has probably been more rigorous about all this than the requirements of popular film making dictate. Since he has an international cast working in a foreign locale, much of the dialogue is translated in subtitles, which is going to cause...
...Detroit fans warmed up slowly to ELP's new, sophisticated stylings. Jim Richter, 22, was overheard saying to his date, "You said I'd love these guys. This sounds like something on PBS " That all changed when the group turned to some golden oldies from the years 1970 to 1974. The applause was thunderous for ELP's version of the Pictures at an Exhibition, a monster hit of 1972. Drummer Palmer took the spotlight as soloist in the churning, pulsating, jazz-oriented Tank. The stage suddenly went dark and then orange, red and yellow lights began...
...Dickens era is well begun with this production of Hard Times, which is as spare as The Pallisers is lush. Whether PBS intended it or not, the two series are ideal companions. Trollope wrote of power struggles in Parliament and of intrigue under the topiary at the country house of the Duke of Omnium. In Hard Times Dickens explained what life was like for those who could only peer through the gates-and how much misery it cost to maintain those ducal shrubs in such well-shaved elegance...