Word: channelized
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...over a month I've been watching the late-night horror flicks on Channel 56. And I've discovered that the makers of horror films stick to a pretty strict formula. As I sat frozen in front of these tube chillers, I found that time after time after time the nastiest ghouls and spectres did not make their appearance until the waning stages of the film. Well, it's just like the movies for the Harvard basketball team, because as the season winds up the meanest and nastiest of them all are about to make their appearance...
...There is not much hope that the trend will change. I wouldn't go so far as some folks and say that the season has been a complete horror show. But after the weekend it might be appropriate to have the 1972-73 basketball promotional film done up by Channel...
...departure. His permanent successor is likely to be at least equally as committed to impeding progress, and lacking Dunlop's style, will become yet another of the gray bureaucrats who predominate around here. Dunlop at least has a sense of commitment to match his engaging personality: his expedient moves channel events toward goals he values sincerely and highly. Most of us accurately viewed him as an enemy, but he at least was an adversary we could simultaneously chuckle at and respect even as we repudiated most of what he stood...
...Angeles harbor, checks the handling of flammable cargoes, and keeps an eye out for thieves, drug smugglers and illegal aliens. She has mastered the use of the .38-cal. revolver she carries, as well as such mysterious port argot as: "There's a camel loose in the channel; get a sea gull to pick it up." Translation: "A wharf pile is afloat; get a refuse boat to pick...
...artistic importance to the generations that followed them. Stylistically their flatness of design and elaboration of detail verged on the decorative and gave impetus to Beardsley and Art Nouveau. Yet what they were doing was in no way as radical or influential as what their contemporaries across the Channel, the Impressionists, were doing. If the pre-Raphaelites contributed anything to the mainstream of modern art, it was an attitude. They were the first to rebel against the heavily sentimentalized genre scenes of the academy schools. Compared to these soap operas in paint, the Pre-Raphaelites looked for an art that...