Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Expert panelists from the trucking industry and various public interest groups debated federal deregulation of trucking in a segment of the PBS series "The Advocates" taped last night in the Arco Forum at the Kennedy School of Government...
...televised segment of Visions and viewpoints, a Public Health School production which will deal with the history of the Afro-American Department at Harvard. The show will be aired in the Science Center next Friday...
...twelve years after the close of Roots I, and ends in 1967, the year Alex Haley went to Africa to search for traces of his ancestor Kunta Kinte. In the hours be tween, the show charts the lives of four generations of the author's family. The first segment ends with the death of Kun ta Kinte's grandson, Chicken George (Avon Long); by the final episode the viewer has briefly seen Haley's own chil dren. As before, public events are dramatized in terms of their effect on one black family. But the post-Civil...
...against a re-run of The Sound of Music (NBC) and Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes (CBS). The victory would be just, for the last two hours of Roots: The Next Generations are about as good as television gets. Besides containing the 8½-minute Brando-Jones confrontation, this segment recounts Haley's collaboration with Malcolm X on the Black Muslim's classic autobiography. As played by Al Freeman Jr. and written (in nine drafts) by Kinoy, Malcolm is the first black radical ever to be portrayed as an intelligent, three-dimensional character on television...
After watching the final segment of the television version in New York, Haley went out to the airport to fly to Los Angeles. He was mobbed, and the airline attendant who came to his rescue told him, "You'll have to be pre-boarded from now on, sir. Your life will never be the same...