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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...
...PBS too is contributing some weighty fare this summer, most notably American Masters, a 15-part series of profiles of some of the country's major creative artists. In the typical manner of PBS umbrella programming, the * individual shows have little in common. Two-thirds were made expressly for the series, presented by New York City's WNET; the rest were purchased from other sources (two of these American portraits were, in fact, made in Britain). They vary widely in style as well as quality. But together they provide a stimulating, season-long meditation on the elusive nature of creativity...
...which had become a sprawling dump for more than 30 years' worth of defective or leftover bombs. The winner of the $3.2 million contract was a small new firm based in Washington named UXB International. (UXB, which stands for "unexploded bomb," was in the title of a BBC and PBS television series.) The company was set up by a former Navy lieutenant, Phillip Hough, who served two tours in Viet Nam as an explosive-ordnance specialist...