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Those realities -- at least, one person's view of them -- are the subject of The Africans, a series that has ignited PBS's latest brush fire of controversy. The nine-week survey of African culture, history and politics has drawn a sharp attack from Lynne Cheney, the Reagan-appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which supplied $600,000 of the program's $3.5 million budget. The series, she charges, "frequently degenerates into anti-Western diatribe" and fails to meet NEH's "standards of balance and objectivity." Among her complaints: a sympathetic portrayal of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi...
Cornell (2-1 overall, 1-0 Ivies), which invades the Stadium this afternoon at 1 p.m. (in a game that will be televised by PBS as the network's Ivy League Game of the Week), boasts what is arguably the top defense in the Ivies and what is unquestionably one of the leading passers in the Ancient Eight...
Same time, last year: Harvard faces Cornell this Saturday at the Stadium. The game will start a half-hour early, at 1 p.m., as it is the PBS game of the week. The Big Red is currently 2-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy after a 33-22 loss to Lafayette last weekend...
...Columnist Jeff Greenfield. "What we have done by the sheer quantity of stories is to imply that a very serious problem has become the most pressing domestic crisis," says Greenfield. "We have helped create an atmosphere in which hysterical legislation is more likely to pass." Hodding Carter, host of PBS's Capitol Journal, agrees. "What the media have done is to throw the blood into the water and then look back and say, 'My, my, the sharks are feeding on this blood in Congress,' " said Carter on the MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour last week...
...Pudding performance last year, cast member Jon Tolins announced that a friend of his was in the audience, and requested permission to bring him backstage. Tolins' fellow transvestite thespians were amazed to see that the 'friend' was none other than PBS talkster Dick Cavett. Cavett not only came backstage but took the whole cast out to pizza where he was awarded a facsimile of the famous Pudding Pot in the shape of a pizzeria pitcher and christened Alternate Man of the Year, recalls Weir...