Word: channell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Well, somebody's got to get people's attention. Entertainment news on TV is hopping as never before. There's an entire cable channel devoted to it, at least four daily "newscasts" cover it, and a host of more traditional outlets -- from the network morning shows to the prime-time TV newsmagazines -- are paying increasing attention to it. And there's a war going on: between Entertainment Tonight, the bubbly, 13-year-old show distributed by Paramount TV to 167 stations, and Extra -- The Entertainment Magazine, a newcomer from Warner Bros. television, which started early this month on 125 outlets...
...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...
...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...