Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These are two groups that it is our obligationto represent... not one segment, not one politicalgroup, and not our personal ideological beliefs,"Robert J. Baror '00-01 said...
...want me to fly out later this month, and I don t know if I want to do it and....=Jeopardy=Jeopardy=crashed and burned.<= Maybe it was fate getting back at him for having the gall to look down at the screen displaying his winnings during the opening segment. Or perhaps it was the several on-camera interactions that made Alex Trebek look like the dope he is. In any event, Dave was sent packing, albeit $16,400 richer...
Forgoing a predictable chronological narrative, the documentary presents itself thematically. The first segment, grandiloquently titled "Heaven and Earth," spends an hour chronicling Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic, and a second hour examining the era of space exploration. Another segment gives us a picture of America's rebellious spirit through the stories of Martin Luther King Jr. and Elvis Presley. A particularly affecting installment, airing on April 3, depicts America as an imperfect global paterfamilias, and looks at the country's efforts to preserve democracy in the Great War at the beginning of the century and again, ambiguously...
...academics, writers and other pundits, mostly male, offering tired facts and not always enlightening insights about the past 10 decades. It is debatable whether a 12-hour examination of modern world history actually requires an entire 60 min. on Elvis. It is iffier still whether anyone watching the segment will benefit from a dour-looking David Halberstam explaining that "the King" was an iconoclast and a "forerunner to youth culture." And while we're on the tricky subject of inclusions and omissions, how did the producers justify an hour on the Iranian hostage crisis and not, say, on the creation...
...wasn't as bad as Forces of Nature." Well, we were wrong; the bar just got lowered. The Mod Squad, based on the TV series that ran from 1968 to 1973, is a disaster you don't have to wait for to happen. It could be the capper segment in a Fox prime-time special on the World's Most Inept Movies. The cinematography is so gross and grainy that the film looks like its own illegal dupe. The stars seem to be acting under protest. The picture has the jagged anti-rhythm of some cheap hipster fiasco from...