Word: channell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During Friday afternoon's taping of Channel 56's "Let's Talk Politics," which aired last night, Barrett questioned the integrity of his Democratic opponents--state Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill) and former state Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown...
...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...
...named after the living (hence Che Guevara is ubiquitous), and insofar as he has developed a personality cult, has done so mostly by default: revealing almost nothing about himself, and letting speculation do the rest. Where North Korean radios are fixed so as to receive only one (government) channel, Cuban radios are, willy-nilly, open to the world...
...worked with Toni Braxton and Madonna) and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (the masterminds of Janet Jackson's rise to megastardom). Every song on II is about love and is performed at mid-tempo; the whole enterprise could easily have become just another bland-as-the-Weather-Channel collection of precision- crafted pop songs. It didn't. Each of the Boyz has a robust, nimble voice -- "There's not a weak link in the bunch," says Jam -- and the group turns almost every song on II into a vocal workout. Water Runs Dry, with its plaintive singing backed...
...thing that made Kurt Cobain leave this world riding on a shotgun blast. MTV, which televised some of the festival and launched a home-shopping show during it, ran an ad for its coverage with the slogan, "All you have to do to change the world is change the channel...