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Television programs

Shirts and skins

by Harper’s Staff,

Revised text

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Somehow form a family

by Tony Earley,

Channeling the remains of an American childhood

A buried treasure

by Harper’s Staff,

One fan’s burden

by Danny Drennan,

A grim obligation that might be made to work

by George W.S. Trow,

An evening with Ron, Nancy, Jerome, and Bob

And now, for something cheap. What’s coming up and going down at PBS

by Jack Hitt,

TV’s ironic age

by Mark Crispin Miller,

You are what you watch

by Larry Tritten,

A status-conscious guide to personal programming

Buying and selling the TV viewer

by Les Brown,

Prime time and the big picture

America’s telescreens

by Mark Crispin Miller,

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