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...EDGE (PBS, Nov. 6 and 10 on most stations). PBS's new monthly magazine series on pop culture, with host Robert Krulwich, enlivens some familiar topics (Grateful Dead fanatics, Norman Mailer's new novel) with personal points of view from such contributors as Buck Henry and critic James Wolcott...
...object is to find and capture Carmen or one of her gang and restore the stolen treasures. In the version that is airing on PBS, player-detectives decipher a series of verbal clues, then use their knowledge of geography to score points. The top scorer gets to chase Carmen around a large, unmarked map. In the computer version -- which is played with the help of books like a the World Almanac or an atlas -- competitors may be shown an image of Socrates and have to know when he lived in order to move to the next clue. Carmen's trail...
...program eventually grew into five different Carmen titles, selling 2 million copies. In September Golden Books began publishing a line of adventure books, including Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? and Where in Europe Is Carmen Sandiego? This fall the half-hour Carmen TV series debuted nationally on PBS...
Elizabeth A. Cheng, an award-winning executive television producer for Channel 5, said she didn't like her first job as a PBS announcer. Ten years ago she happily "jumped ship" to programming and research at Channel...
Nina Totenberg, the respected legal-affairs correspondent for National Public Radio, was co-anchor for PBS coverage of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Clarence Thomas. Her commentary, though a bit preachy, sounded authoritative. Totenberg had a more than normal interest in the outcome. Several committee members were demanding an inquiry into the leak that had provided Totenberg and New York Newsday's Timothy Phelps with the scoop that Anita Hill had accused Thomas of sexual harassment, which led to the hearings she was covering. Moreover, Totenberg said one reason she took the charges against Thomas seriously was that...