Word: channelized
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...with accounts of his part in 1986 negotiations to clear the way for U.S. physicians to help Chernobyl's victims, and then in freeing hostage U.S. Journalist Nicholas Daniloff and a would-be Soviet emigre, Geneticist David Goldfarb. These incidents demonstrate his unusual role as a back-channel conduit between U.S. and Soviet officials. They also reflect the pragmatic approach Hammer takes toward the Soviets, his business partners on and off since the early 1920s. Readers will search in vain for indignation about the Soviet record on human rights. They will find instead a cuddly Lenin, a reasonable Gorbachev...
...survey, Feng Shui Master Chung Ying-Mei decreed that the structure's base must form a U shape, which he claimed was much more receptive to the good fortune emanating from the bay. Architect Remo Riva complied. Says Riva: "He said we should also put up an antenna to channel feng shui waves into the building. Barring that, he suggested we put a hole in the roof." The building now has a skylight...
There is supposedly a new blues revival on now. The full house that came out to see Hooker at the Channel on Friday certainly suggested that somebody'd been spreading the word, bringing in the usual Boston button-down types with a sprinkling of brooding hippies and underage punks. This was the first hard evidence I'd gotten of the blues being revived, aside from reading magazine cover stories on "Great Black Hope" Robert Cray. (Blues has recently developed boxing's problem in reverse: a formerly all-Black domain with no up-and-coming young Black players...
Hooker's warm-up band for the Channel concern were a couple of white blues popularizers from the '60s: Paul Butterfield (The Paul Butterfield Blues Band) and Rick Danko (The Band). They struck me as the real blues prophets...
Secord described the Iranians as representing a "second channel" of communication with Iran, one that U.S. participants in the ultimately unsuccessful arms-for-hostages project were eager to pursue at the time...