Word: channelling
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Allegedly during the 1930s, The Times cover properly synthesized Britons’ idea of themselves in relation to Europe: “Dense fog over English Channel. Continent isolated.” Britannia did not love the Continent much. With the European Union (EU) turning 50 years old last week, times seem to have changed. But how much...
...just about seducing a specific, key constituency for the EU future, but also about proving the organization’s ideological relevance for the future. That is a crucial step toward realizing the last line of the EU 50th birthday declaration: Britons included, and despite the English Channel, “Europe is our common future...
...Sturges got her to channel her hyperactivity in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, a 1944 comedy that transposes the Nativity story to an American town overrun with horny soldiers. Hutton's Trudy Kockenlocker is a virginal party girl who gets drunk and pregnant on a toot with the boys in uniform. To save the family's reputation, Trudy must convince Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken), the 4F loony who has loved her since childhood, to marry her while impersonating the soldier who knocked her up - whoever he was. (Trudy thinks his name might have been Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki.) Addressing all kinds...
...host ofthe Popular Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel, Mike Rowe has taken on some of the most disgusting and dangerous work, including shark-suit tester (ouch!) and sewage-treatment worker (ick!). After more than 150 of these jobs, Rowe has developed special insights into the nature of work, which he shared with TIME's Kathleen Adams...
...expected to plummet. Advertisers are already demanding rebates on air time purchased on the assumption India would make it to the next round. "It is a crisis," Bharat Patel, chairman of multinational Procter and Gamble told the Times of India. "It's a house on fire situation. If the channel wants to consider a long-term customer relationship they have to concede. They have to give their customers better value...