Word: channel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio tuned to a police channel squawks. A girl in a yellow dress. a golden watch medallion and brown Clairol hair. comes into the room and sits next to a young reporter with executive sideburns. She has a big bag looped around her shoulder. and large square-framed yellow-golden metallic glasses. The Club Room is hot and close...
...cars and a crew to operate them. Because nearly $110,000 of his swag was in traceable notes, he had to dispose of them in the underworld at a 50% discount. Escaping from England cost him $45,000 for a small boat, hiding places on either side of the Channel and escorts. Abroad he visited a plastic surgeon for expensive ($7,000) alterations to his face and fingertips. He spent 15 months in hiding, then bought a fake passport and flew to Australia as Terrence Furminger. From Adelaide he sent back $2,500 for other passports and air fare...
...Welcome Channel...
...back to the safe harbor of primitive myth. Just as myth was the predecessor of science and religion, so may rumor have been the precursor of myth. Long before man registered his thoughts on the pages of history, he committed his anxieties and his faith to rumor-that welcome channel of information and misinformation that made sense of senselessness...
Most important, the new Juilliard is quiet. Elaborate soundproofing restrains the musical sawing, singing and pounding of adjacent performers. Meticulously angled walls and ceilings channel sound patterns in scientifically approved directions. (Practice studios, for instance, have no right angles...