Word: segments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brightest of PBS's established series, The Great American Dream Machine, has been wisely cut from 90 minutes to a more manageable one hour this year. But opening night-which aired some particularly imaginative segments, notably two charming cartoons and a droll sketch of a Mississippi crop duster-abruptly ended after 45 minutes in a foofaraw symptomatic of public TV's major ailment in the U.S. Since PBS and its producers get much of their financing from the Federal Government, and since this funding is not insulated from querulous annual scrutiny, the network quakes at the least cavil...
SHIRLEY'S WORLD (ABC). In this import from England, Shirley MacLaine portrays an impulsive photojournalist from the States, based in London. The premiere established her credentials in the face of a male-chauvinist editor; in the second segment, she got unprofessionally overinvolved in the tax problems of a home-distiller in Scotland. Both scripts were absurdly implausible and unworthy of the performer's literacy and charm. But Executive Producer Sheldon Leonard, who in better days produced I Spy and the old Dick Van Dyke Show, insists that Shirley will be the first TV comedienne to have an obviously...
Gruening and Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at MIT, defended Ellsberg during the taping of The Advocates, a weekly series on WGBH--TV. The segment will be televised on Channel 2 at 8:30 p.m. next Tuesday...
...most frightening segment of Barnouw's entire history, however, comes not in the "muddling through" decades of industrial machination and government ignorance, but in the instances where broadcasting is used as an aid to empire. In the final volume of his history, Barnouw states that most of these instances were accidental. But the history of the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Liberty shows the conscious U.S. reliance on radio to further counter-revolutionary ends...
...cuts, flashy graphics and clever manipulation of sight and sound. Each program is limited to two subjects and is hosted by Tom Chapin, a personable, hairy chap wearing an embroidered work shirt and bellbottoms, who sings nicely and plays a good guitar. Last week's première segment dealt with the words bull and fly. The visuals ran rapidly through the various kinds of "bull"-bullfrog, bully, Bull Moose Party, rodeo bull, bulldogs. "That is a lot of bull," Chapin remarked inevitably. The segment on flying managed to trace that activity from Icarus to the 747 via Superman...