Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like many another wide-eyed couch potato, I had eagerly awaited each weekly episode of Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. Bill Moyers' series of interviews on PBS with the late Professor Campbell, one of the world's reigning experts on mythology, was fascinating stuff, if you're really into fertility cults, purification rites and the like. But the show wasn't all Upanishads and Choctaw legends. Once in a while, with Moyers smirking approval in the background, Campbell would offer some solid, down-to-earth advice. Live mythologically, he would say. It's a means of keeping...
Libra was in the TV room. As she flicked on the set I saw the shadowy outline of two talking heads. "Oh, look," she said, siren-like. "PBS has a rerun of your favorite show. Want to watch...
AMERICAN MASTERS (PBS, debuting July 11, 9 p.m on most stations). The spotlight is on Lillian Gish in the first of this season's profiles. Upcoming in the eight weeks following: Duke Ellington, Augustus Saint Gaudens, the Algonquin Round Table...
...EMPIRE OF REASON (PBS, July 13, 10 p.m. on most stations). The big guns of TV news report on the battle to ratify the Constitution as if it were a breaking story. Walter Cronkite anchors for the "Continental Television Network," and William F. Buckley Jr. and Phil Donahue do their thing...
...giving freshness to what could otherwise seem wearily familiar. Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse deftly used a pan-Hispanic ambience and interpolated / Spanish phrases to distinguish its production of John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves from the Tony-winning Broadway version, seen nationally on PBS...