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Special, miniseries, big event: these are the most overused terms in television's absurd lexicon of hype. But in the 1978-79 season, when almost every prime-time show is labeled spectacular by the networks, one mini-series surely justifies the advance billing. That show is Roots: The Next Generations, ABC's sequel to the most popular TV entertainment of all time. When this 14-hour production airs over seven nights in early February, upwards of 100 million viewers may tune in to see if it is a worthy successor to the original Roots. ABC expects a huge...
Trudeau loses a mini-election...
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau celebrated his 59th birthday last week, with many unhappy returns. In a record-breaking 15 by-elections across the country-"mini-elections" in which nearly 1 million voters were involved-Trudeau's Liberals suffered a brutal whipping. The real target of the voters' wrath, clearly, was Trudeau himself...
They are certainly singing and dancing with gut-lusty abandon in Eubie! If the twelve members of the cast were sent to Washington, they could undoubtedly resolve the energy crisis in two hours. Yet as a musical revue without a narrative line or cohesive theme, Eubie! ranks as a mini-clone of Ain 't Misbehavin '. That is not too difficult to understand, since Fats Waller's musical imagination was richer than Blake's in wit, satire and sophistication. Eubie! is thoroughly entertaining and unerringly professional, but it bubbles more often than it blazes...
...There are so many types of people in the Boston area, so much ethnic diversity. Boston is really a mini-country. It's a good location for research into the nutritional needs of the urban elderly," Greg O'Meara, legislative assistant to Rep. O'Neill, said yesterday...