Word: pbs
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...discussion was moderated by Gwen Ifill, an anchor on PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer...
...prestigious ensembles as the American Ballet Theatre and the San Francisco Ballet, both of which commissioned new pieces from Morris this season. He is the subject of a just published coffee-table anthology of essays and interviews about L'Allegro. "Some of my dancers first saw the company on pbs when they were 11 and dreamed of dancing with us when they grew up," he says bemusedly. "It's a little strange, this whole thing of how the baby-boom people are now in power. Like kooky Bill Clinton gets elected President, and menopause has become something to be proud...
...hooked on robot fighting when it became a sort of geek tractor-pull attraction for the San Francisco-area nerdoisie in the mid-'90s. In 1999 they started mounting competitions for pay-per-view. (A similar program, Robot Wars, is a hit in Britain and is rerun on some PBS stations.) They shopped a series to cable networks, and Comedy Central bit, seeing a good fit for its young male audience. (Anyone who argues that demolition isn't comedy has obviously never seen David Letterman drop a watermelon off a six-story building...
Burns's 17 and a half hour long documentary began airing on PBS...
...Before we continue, full disclosure: We in no way feel that we are qualified to run PBS. Or to hold a high position at the OMB. Or even, really, to sweep out the foyer at the Air & Space Museum. All of which we applied for. And neither of us expects that this letter will change anyone's mind in the new administration, or give us a better chance at that great government pension in the sky. We just want to set the record straight, and to perhaps warn other soft-hearted folks who, foundering in the tempest-toss'd seas...