Word: channell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Take Back the Night not only brings really strong campus leaders together to work to improve the situation on campus," said Lauren A. Hammer '98, a co-chair of Domestic Crisis Outreach Committee (DCOC). "It allows those leaders to channel women's concerns, which should be the concern of both sexes, into campus and community life...
...FUTURE OF THE COUCH POTATO IS looking brighter--and more interactive. Crashed-out boob-tube watchers who hate to get up and use a computer will soon be able to channel- and Net-surf on the same screen. This week Gateway 2000, the PC direct marketer, will introduce the long-promised big-screen PC. The $4,000 Destination consists of a PC with a 31-in. monitor, a wireless keyboard and access to television signals and the Internet. Mix in a high-speed modem and a friendly interface that helps byte phobiacs navigate the Net, and you'd have interactive...
...Disney overlords. "They have been very supportive," says Capital Cities/ABC president Robert Iger, who runs the TV, radio and publishing operations from New York. Iger points out that most of the big moves attributed to Disney--including the recently announced plans to launch a 24-hour cable news channel--were in the works before the merger. He acknowledges, however, that the news channel might not have happened without Disney's deep pockets and aggressiveness: "It would have been a tougher sell with [former Capital Cities/ABC chairman] Tom Murphy...
...level as the Seminar's publications, has inevitably contributed to the issue's achieving a sort of pop-culture critical mass. Christological chatter pervades even the Internet, and dozens of other volumes on the search for Jesus are either just published or in the works. This week the cable channel Cinemax 2 will be running a program called The Gospel According to Jesus, which features celebrities and ordinary people reciting from a custom-tailored Bible. It is based on Scripture assembled by author Stephen Mitchell, who deleted many of Jesus' sayings and most of the events in his life, noting...
...hardly in need of corroboration by committee. Yet Funk made what many found to be a compelling argument. At a time when the airwaves were full of televangelists touting the New Testament as God-inspired, inerrant (correct in all ways) and supportive of right-wing views, here was a channel for another viewpoint. "Bob Funk's Jesus is quite different from my Jesus," Crossan says. But both longed to get beyond what they saw as the prevailing attitude toward historical questioning: "Don't say it out in public, don't bring it into the churches...