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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simple perceptions of unsophisticated people there are a strength and decency too often underestimated by media pundits who have lost touch with the values by which most of America still lives. When we see Scott's anguish as he witnesses a porno film starring his daughter, then watch him plunge bravely into that awful and degrading world searching for his child, we cannot help being moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Porn Scorned | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...chronicled in Roots 1. As Producer Stan Margulies, 58, explained to TIME Correspondent Robert Goldstein: "If the first series was about the struggle for freedom, this Roots is about the struggle for equality. There is a big but subtle difference. None of us lived 200 years ago: you could watch the first Roots and say 'I wouldn't act like that.' In the new group of shows, you have to look at yourself in the mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Super Sequel to Haley's Comet | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Buildings and Grounds (B & G) is putting extra men on "cold watch" this weekend to avoid the freezing pipes and flooding that plagued Holyoke Center and other University buildings throughout the week...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Cold Alert | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...many standards the Carnegie model was an astonishing success. The number of TV stations grew from 126 to 280; more than 40% of all families in the U.S. now watch public TV at least once a week. In other respects, the Carnegie report paved the way to failure, and the organization Congress set up has become a bureaucratic maze and a frustration to everyone who enters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Recasting the Public System | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Dubin's descent is painful to watch but thoroughly absorbing, for his struggle assumes heroic dimensions. He is smart enough to bear the responsibility for his anguish and strong enough to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lonely Cosmos | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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