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...point, and it is probably the reason why, of all the great events in American history, the first of them has received the least attention from films and television. The mildest praise you can offer The Adams Chronicles (PBS, Tuesdays, 9 p.m., E.S.T.) is that it is the exception that sorely tries Cohn's law. More important, a sampling of the 13-episode series finally lays to rest the cliche that only the British are capable of producing complex family sagas...
...history. It certainly isn't derived from his personal success or prospects. His thrice-weekly column is currently syndicated in some 140 newspapers, and he writes a biweekly column for Newsweek that began last week. He is a regular commentator on a Washington TV station, and frequently appears on PBS's "Agronsky and Company". He has already established himself as one of the most sophisticated conservative thinkers in the country--much more complex and coherent than William F. Buckley Jr., immeasurably superior to the like of Kevin Phillips and James J. Kilpatrick. Will is, moreover, one of the most literate...
SPIRIT: Frederick Wiseman's Welfare (PBS). With his customary cool compassion, TV's only great documentarian showed us not a bland and idealized portrait of what we have been but the inhumane and bureaucratized future that has already arrived for the poor and could dominate everyone's life by our 300th birthday...
Great Performances and In Performance at Wolf Trap (PBS). The Fifth Freedom-freedom from yammer-is eloquently defended in programs that do not educate us about music or sell it to us, but offer it well performed without self-congratulation or apology...
...little encouraging to see programs like PBS's National Geographic special The Incredible Machine receiving favorable viewer reaction, as a respite from the commercial networks' deluge of waste. TV should be an occasional form of entertainment or source of information, not a way of life...