Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Search for Solutions, PBS, starts June 10,9p.m. E.D.T...
...walk the tedious trail that might eventually lead to a career in the laboratory. The loss is society's, and the answer to the horrors of a Three Mile Island or a Love Canal is not clamping down on science, but training more and better scientists. This remarkable PBS series is a welcome attempt to answer that need. Science, it says, is not only the world's biggest game; it is also the most exciting...
...Death of a Princess [May 19] is the exploitation of a pathetic human tragedy. How lovely it would have been if PBS had withdrawn the program, not because of pressure but simply out of respect for another country's religious beliefs and customs. Such an act of kindness might have been one small step toward peace, a healing balm for our frightened and anguished world...
Disraeli, PBS, beginning June 1,9p.m. E.D.T...
...little time. One second Disraeli is out of office; the next second he is in-and then out again. Disraeli is dizzying indeed. The confusion has been added to by the show's American editors, who have cut approximately half an hour from the four episodes to fit PBS's absurdly rigid time slot. Love for Lydia, which was also on Masterpiece Theater, took twelve episodes -and threatened to stretch on through infinity. Disraeli takes only four. The viewer feels cheated and wants more, much more. - Gerald Clarke