Word: pbs
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...Golden Age of Television (PBS). A selection of golden oldies from the '50s, including Marty and The Days of Wine and Roses, demonstrated that, yes, they really did do things better back then...
...Shock of the New (PBS). A spirited tour, in an eight-part series, by TIME Art Critic Robert Hughes through the art and architecture of that most difficult of all centuries, the 20th...
...wall can openers, crinkly cellophane and electric blankets. Nor do cats, like Kliban's cartoon meat-loaves, respond with interest to human grownup preoccupations. They pay no mind to politics, opera, opinion polls, fuel-stingy autos or nuclear proliferation. They remain unimpressed by est, Kiwanis, cocaine and PBS. Felines yawn equally at the reputations of Mick Jagger and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Cats operate in an exclusive and maddening parabola of reality that can frustrate our lives or demand our attention and tune our sensibilities to more graceful things. While people argue about their courage, usefulness and affection...
...occasion for this glittering gathering of musical talent last week was the 100th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The gala concert, televised in Europe (and to be broadcast in the U.S. by PBS on Nov. 4), was followed four days later, on the actual centennial day, with a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 on the Boston Common, led by Music Director Seiji Ozawa, 46, before 40,000 listeners from Brockton to Beacon Hill...
...support these operations? A number of industry observers doubt it and expect some, or all, of the new networks to suffer a cer tain amount of disappointment. "I don't think the cultural market is that big," frets David Crippens, manager of Los Angeles' PBS station KCET. "Our prime-time ratings have doubled in the last two years, but I still view the entry of the cultural cables as a challenge. We will have to provide programs that, the audiences can't get elsewhere." Viewers, whose careers and livelihoods are not at stake, may be excused...