Word: channelized
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Here was a gaudy show of Clinton's channel-changing skills, his rescindable reality, his now-I-mean-it, now-I-don't. The last, final, no-kidding, planes- in-the-air, lock-and-load, ah'm-gonna-knock-yo'-haid- clean-off dudgeon metamorphosed -- surprise! -- into Jimmy Carter's dropping from the sky into Port-au-Prince. The voodoo of appeasement. Erstwhile murderer-torturer-rapists deserving nothing less than violent eviction (even if the invasion violates U.S. popular and congressional opinion and virtually every lesson learned in Vietnam) became, in the sunshine of Carter's smile and hunger...
...hardly novel. Didn't we all have Sex Fd in sixth grade? Yes, but Levin is neither the scientist interested in reducing Fros to its bio-mechanics nor the campus activist who attempts to equate Fros with a slogan. Levin doesn't purport to master this force, only to channel it. By invoking seduction, Levin's lectures become seductions unto themselves...
...Travel Center will channel all faculty and staff making travel plans to Thomas Cooke, securing significantly lower prices, Shnur said...
...tradition. Henceforth, he said, ABC would ask producers to eliminate or drastically reduce the opening-credit sequences in their prime-time shows -- and with them theopening theme songs. The goal is to reduce program downtime, when viewers are most tempted to grab the remote control and switch the channel. Logical, perhaps, but rather coldhearted. Imagine Mary Tyler Moore without Mary to "turn the world on with her smile," Gilligan's Island without its bouncy "tale of a fateful trip," Hill Street Blues without Mike Post's opening theme or Twin Peaks without Angelo Badalamenti...
...networks have responded by launching a war against channel grazing. All four are moving to shorten opening-credit sequences, spice up the end credits with program material (such as outtakes from the show just seen) and add more "seamless transitions" -- eliminating the commercials between shows -- in an effort to keep viewers hooked. Meanwhile, time slots are more critical than ever to a show's success or failure...