Word: channelized
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...video cameras above the bar flashes a kaleidoscope of images: women's cleavage, men's butts, couples kissing, faces laughing. My pal Sora and I snag a seat at one of the two dozen desktop video consoles dotting the cozy, cavelike space and push a button to start channel surfing. When we see someone interesting, we use a joystick to zoom in for a better view. Within a few minutes, a message pops up on screen: "Channel 33 says hi! Would you like to go to that channel? Press A if so. Press B to deny them." I press...
...looker on Channel 7 and push a button to let him know I want him to talk. He tells me his name is Lucien; he's 32 and Dutch. Sounds good to me. But when I finally make it over to Lucien's table at the back of the bar, I discover he's married. Also, he has bad teeth. I move on to Adam, who looks better in person than he did on camera, but his brother Alex, 23, is more my type. We flirt; he asks me for my number and wants to take a picture...
Across the Channel, the European field-sports community has watched these convulsions in disbelief, concern and even with a little amusement. In Germany, hounds are not used to kill game but to chase animals toward hunters with guns. But there is hunting with hounds either on foot or on horseback in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Italy. In France, where politicians antagonize rural folk at their peril, there are 440 hound packs - more than in Britain - to hunt everything from deer to foxes to boar; parties, parades and church masses are staged to cheer the hunts on. Says...
Much of the fascination with the connection between mental illness and genius, whether mathematic or artistic, seems to focus on the idea that geniuses can channel their illnesses into a creative power and that their extraordinary capabilities can act as a form of therapy. In A Beautiful Mind, for instance, Nash claims to “solve” his schizophrenia with the same part of his brain that he uses to solve mathematical puzzles. In her psychoanalysis of Virginia Woolf, Dalsimer provides a thoughtful, elegant exploration of the idea that a creative outlet can enable an artist to escape...
...local church performance two years ago, McCarty caught the attention of local television personality Dominic “Fred” Grandinetti, a volunteer who has hosted an award-winning children’s television show, “Drawing with Fred,” on the local Watertown Channel since...