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Then, in the late 1920s, after a flood that spread the river 40 miles from its banks, the U.S. Congress made levee construction Washington's responsibility. Billions of tax dollars from elsewhere--probably tens of billions, in modern money--were spent constricting the Mississippi's channel, so its silt began washing straight out to sea and off the continental shelf. By the 1970s, more than half the historic sediment load was coming to a dead stop behind dozens of upriver dams--especially seven monstrous structures erected on the Missouri...
...fabled than blood, it's testosterone, the hormone that we understand and misunderstand as the essence of manhood. Testosterone has been offered as the symbolic (and sometimes literal) explanation for all the glories and infamies of men, for why they start street fights and civil wars, for why they channel surf, explore, prevail, sleep around, drive too fast, plunder, bellow, joust, plot corporate takeovers and paint their bare torsos blue during the Final Four. Hey, what's not to like...
...interview with John Lydon. Surprisingly, Lydon volunteers to help out. "Does anyone have some double-A batteries for a rather large vibrator?" he bellows to startled young assistants and executives down the hall. Adding to the embarrassment, we're doing the interview at the offices of the kiddie cable channel Nickelodeon...
...lost his sarcastic sneer--even if his spiky orange hair and Day-Glo togs make him look more like a Rugrat these days than a rebel. Lydon is ensconced in Nickelodeon's editing room finishing the second episode of Rotten Television, his new series for Nick's sister channel, VH1. A free-form zeitgeist diatribe, it has no script, a shoestring budget and zero structure. "What's the fun in having a format?" he asks, burping nonchalantly and narrowing his eyes to a laser glare. "I'll leave that to everyone else...
...York Times ("All The News That's Fit to Print," grave chronicler of wars and famines and NASDAQ plunges) is given over to the Boy and the Attorney General and the Dictator and the religio-political mob scene. Turn on the television and on every news channel the mob scene springs to life - famous Hispanic singer passionately orates, cops reinforce barricades with chains, the Boy is seen coming down the sliding board, laughing...