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...wisdom. For nobody comes to the subject better primed than Hughes. He has observed the U.S. art scene firsthand since becoming TIME's art critic in 1970. Three years ago, he embarked on a historical, eight-part TV series about it, also called American Visions, which is airing on pbs from May 28 to June 18. In conjunction with the series, he turned out a copiously illustrated, 250,000-word book under the same title, which has just been published by Knopf...
...more than 1 million. His site on the World Wide Web--cozily titled "Ask Dr. Weil"--recorded 1 million hits in April alone (and he is currently in discussion with Time New Media, a corporate cousin of this magazine, about affiliating with the Pathfinder Website). His recent appearances on PBS stations around the country drew record audiences; his audio CD of music and meditations is selling briskly. He is, by any measure, the man of the moment in America's eternal search for an alternative to the conventional, interventionist, pharmaceutical medicine most of us grew up thinking...
...most mind-altering drugs and to make little distinction between plants like cocoa and plants like coca--at least in terms of their potential for abuse. Since his recent fame, Weil appears to have become a bit less public with beliefs like this; in promo spots for Weil's pbs specials, the word morphine on the book's dust jacket is conveniently obscured. In private, however, Weil continues to sound defiant. "My views about illicit drugs haven't changed," he says. "There are no good or bad drugs, just good or bad uses...
McTeer (who has done Shakespeare and Chekhov on the London stage and has played Vita Sackville-West in PBS's Portrait of a Marriage) is a tall, imposing-looking blond, which makes her wifely submissiveness early in the play all the more grotesque. Flapping her hands and giggling nervously, she is hardly able to contain her energy--and, indeed, seems ready to fly apart as an old transgression (she once forged a signature to acquire a loan) threatens to unravel her pat little marriage. Yet a freezing calm overtakes her in the final confrontation with her husband Torvald, in which...
...Harvard segment of "College of Comedy" is the first in a series of four such shows to be filmed at colleges around the country. It will air on PBS in October...