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...logo for The Kentucky Cycle features a pioneer woman, jut-jawed and thick-necked, cradling a child in her arms, flanked by a blandly noble plowman and a grimacing boy brandishing a gun. Pay attention to the boy with the gun. While this nine-play, six-hour vision of the making of America hits all the traditional themes of patriotic pageantry, it sees the national character as violent, deceitful and cruel. Firearms or knives are used in seven of the plays. The other two practice violence of the soul -- a bankruptcy "trial" that turns a man into a serf...
...course. The announcer only mentioned that U.S. Air is "the official sponsor of Brown athletics" and that "Brown athletes fly U.S. Air whenever possible" seven times throughout the game. (As if the team would give up the pleasure of six-hour bus trips for a one-hour plane ride...
...excerpts with interviews of Maupin's prototypes. Pam Delaney, for instance, doesn't feel she's really like heroine Mary Ann Singleton. "She showed up a lot more naive than I did," says Delaney, her open-faced smile a sweet self-refutation. Such moments whet the appetite for the six-hour adaptation of Tales coming to PBS this winter...
...been a dull TV season; now for a little mind-bending mayhem. For four nights next week, ABC will plunge viewers into the bright, bizarre world of Wild Palms. The six-hour mini-series is the brainchild of two intriguing newcomers to network TV: Oliver Stone, the director of JFK and Platoon, and Bruce Wagner, writer of a hallucinated comic strip in Details magazine on which the mini-series is based. A few minutes into this futuristic fantasy, and viewers numbed by TV's docudrama deluge will realize they've stumbled onto something special. A few more minutes...
...blackout at Tufts University delayed the start of the MCATs last Saturday, requiring pre-meds to wait nearly two hours before they could begin the six-hour exam...