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The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (1983-12-26)
About this film
The episode first covers conflict amongst the Lebanese army attempting to gain influence in Beirut. Also included is information on the continuing Israel-Palestine conflict with Yasser Arafat and the PLO, Soviet President Yuri Andropov who has failed to make several public appearances, and an interview with Uri Raanan, Murray Feshbach, and F. Stephen Larrabee about Reagan, Andropov, and foreign relations between the US and the Soviet Union. The next segment covers the legacy of artist Joan Mir, discussed by Carolyn Lanchner. Next discussed is the proposed destruction of the Times Tower by the modernist architect who helped design it, Philip Johnson. Johnson is interviewed discussing modernist architecture, his career, and changing architectural theory. Also interviewed is Paul Goldberger, architecture critic, about Johnson, the waning belief in modernism in the same vein as Jane Jacobs, and historic preservation issues.
Directors & creators
NewsHour Productions
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Robert MacNeil, Judy Woodruff, Yuri Andropov, Joan Miró, Philip Johnson, Paul Goldberger, Jesse Jackson, Robert Goodman, Ronald Reagan, Yasser Arafat, King Hussein, Donald Rumsfeld, Abdel Halim Khaddam, Yitzhak Shamir, Lebanese Civil War, Reagan Plan, PLO, Times Tower, Modernist architecture, Cold War, Beirut, Lebanon, Shatila refugee camp
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