Word: channelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle is to be decisive in the war, it will probably be fought at Port Harcourt. Situated 25 miles up a channel from Bonny Island, which is occupied by swarms of federal troops. Port Harcourt has the only major airport left to Ojukwu, who depends upon air shipments for arms and other vital supplies. Its loss would leave Ojukwu's men tightly sealed in their Ibo heartland. To prevent a federal force from coming up the channel, the Biafrans have sunk a barge, cars, trucks and even a bus in it. But last week the federal army was preparing...
Though it is strictly a local television channel, station KQED had the imagination and daring to begin a 13-interview series with Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer five years before CBS discovered him. This fall KQED became the first U.S. station since 1960 to shoot a documentary inside Castro's Cuba. Its special on Duke Ellington, Love You Madly, was so lively that it was later played at the Edinburgh and Venice film festivals. Then there was the channel's Where's Jim Crow?, a weekly segment rooting out covert discrimination in the area. And, for a change...
...channel sounds as if it might be an affiliate of the BBC. But it is an independent station and-even more unlikely-a public (or educational) channel based in San Francisco. Commercial stations in town pay it the ultimate compliment of running KQED's better film footage on their news shows. And though there are 149 other public channels in the U.S., KQED this year provided more than half of the programming pooled among them by the Educational Television Service...
KQED is also subsidized in effect by its 130-member staff, many of whom could earn far more in commercial broadcasting. Top man is General Manager James Day, who dates back to the 1953 beginnings, when KQED was headquartered in the back seat of a station wagon. Today, the channel's offices are three splintering wooden warehouses near Skid Row. The studios are not even soundproof (fire engines offer contrapuntal competition...
...Steiner's music cannot be overlooked. In the new six-channel stereo version, this granddaddy of all epic films scores towers higher above its descendants than ever. Discovering the nuances of orchestration is worth the price of admission; even the Wagnerian use of leitmotif succeeds in furthering the picture's emotional impact...