Word: channeler
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...result sounds a bit like a Broadway show, but one composed by a pop-culture channel surfer on uppers. Jackie is a sweet-toned lyric soprano; Ari, a bass-baritone, is a smarmy lounge lizard (one of his big arias is marked in the score, "Freely sung, a la Dean Martin"). The music they sing jumps joltingly from folk rock to Motown to big-band jazz, all kaleidoscopically orchestrated for a 19-piece pit band with two percussionists. And although the tone is mostly light and lively, an unexpectedly affecting streak of melancholy surfaces whenever Jackie sings of her lost...
...publish their efforts on the Net. Whether anyone will look at them is another question. The radical difference between the Internet and other mass media is that while anyone can make a bid for attention at http something or other, there is no central audience regularly tuning to channel 2 or 4 or 7 -- no easy way to command major market share. If websites were channels, there would be tens of millions of them on the Net, which helps explain why every muffler shop, pizzeria and hardware store seems to have one, as well as every crank. And that...
...with profiles and quizzes like "Who Am I?" (sample question: "I became a U.S. Senator from Mississippi, and in 1853 was appointed Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce..." Answer: Jefferson Davis). A line of books associated with the series will be published this year. An all-Biography cable channel is set to arrive...
...worked half as much my second year. I didn't know how to delegate the work to other people," he says. "I used to get up at 5:30 [a.m.] to watch the Weather Channel to make sure it wasn't going to rain." Kanter explains that during his second year, he discovered he could get his employees to monitor the weather and call him if there were problems...
Instead, they are encouraged to channel their interest in baseball toward softball. "In my high school, there were softball tryouts for girls, and baseball tryouts for boys," Croteau said...