Word: networker
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Pontifell's achievements in publishing have won him recognition from beyond the bookstores. In 1989 he received Time magazine's College Acheivement Award, and he has recent appeared in the New York Times and on network television...
...heat-seeking missiles, devices to lay down an "electronic blanket" suffocating all communications between enemy headquarters and troops in the field, infrared devices supposed to turn night into day for soldiers drawing a bead on hostile troops and armor. The Iraqi forces in Kuwait would rely on an extensive network of minefields, earth berms, razor wire and trenches designed to make an enemy frontal assault as fruitlessly bloody as the British Somme offensive...
...initiated and produced under the auspices of individual stations, funded by a patchwork of public and corporate sources and scheduled (in many cases) according to the whims of local program directors. That worked well enough in the days when PBS was essentially the only alternative to the three commercial networks. But cable has made life more complicated. Such channels as the Arts & Entertainment Network and Superstation TBS have appropriated the kind of programming that was once unique to PBS, from BBC mini-series to Cousteau nature specials. As a result, the PBS audience has been eroded by nearly...
Last week public-TV officials took a decisive step toward reversing that trend, as the PBS board of directors gave final approval to a major revamping of the network's organizational structure. In the new setup, the crucial decisions about which programs will receive PBS funding -- previously made by a majority vote of the local stations -- will be in the hands of one executive. The plan, first unveiled last summer, has drawn objections from officials at several large PBS stations. Says William Baker, president of New York's WNET: "The whole world, even the Soviet Union, is going from...
Also high on her agenda is bringing more ethnic and cultural diversity to a network whose audience is often stereotyped as "the Chardonnay and Brie crowd." Lawson objects to that characterization. "It's as if opera were only for the elite," she says. "But Leontyne Price came from Mississippi, and we don't know about all the other Leontyne Prices who are out there, who can't afford to get to the Metropolitan Opera but can see it on Great Performances...