Word: pbs
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DEAF AND BLIND (PBS) Cinema verite specialist Frederick Wiseman took his cameras to the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind and came back with four enlightening, often heartrending documentaries...
KENNEDY RETROSPECTIVES Twenty-five years after J.F.K.'s assassination, specials on CBS, PBS and elsewhere reminded us movingly -- if excessively -- of the days when Presidents, and television, could be heroes...
VOICES & VISIONS (PBS) TV and poetry usually do not mix. But in this series of 13 thoughtful and evocative essays on American versifiers, the alchemy was just right...
...WEAR (PBS, Dec. 26, 8 p.m. on most stations). Clothes make the man -- and the society. At least, so argues a Smithsonian World special, examining clothes through the ages...
...Potter celebration reaches its climax: The Singing Detective, his 1986 masterpiece about a hospitalized writer, has begun a six-week run in Manhattan's Public Theater movie house. When this 6-hr. 42-min. serial was broadcast on PBS earlier this year, it attracted a rabid cult following, and New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called it "one of the wittiest, wordiest, singingest-dancingest, most ambitious, freshest, most serious, least solemn movies of the year." Now Detective, handsomely directed by Jon Amiel, is on the big screen where it belongs -- and where it looks marvelous...