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Burns plumbs depths of Mark Twain's life.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20020114
Author:Johnson, Dean

"Mark Twain" (PBS).

Airs today and tomorrow at 9 p.m. on WGBH (Ch. 2).

Two stars (out of four)

The title is "Mark Twain." Just "Mark Twain." Television documentarian Ken Burns must have felt the famed American author, the subject of his four-hour, two-part film airing today and tomorrow at 9 p.m. on WGBH (Ch. 2),

is famous enough to require no further description . . . or connection to the Burns documentary legacy that includes the Civil War, jazz and baseball.

Burns' meticulously researched biography boasts the same strengths and harbors the same weaknesses ...

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