Word: channelling
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...light broke through the clouds. I was into my weekly perusal of the stone tablets handed down from Sinai, TV Guide, when I got the news. "Kong" was scheduled! Unfortunately, it was going to be on very, very late - 11:30, right after the news, the spot where Channel 10 ran a movie every night of the week. Late night was a problem; I was at an age when I was still negotiating with my folks to see "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," which started...
...REMOTE If there is a king of the couch potatoes, the Sonica Voice Activated Universal Remote ($40) is his scepter. It controls up to four devices (TV, VCR, DVD player and stereo, for example), but you don't have to push any buttons. Just tell it to change the channel, and it will change the channel. It also has a built-in clock, a reading light and a voice recorder for storing toll-free numbers...
...past three weeks than in the previous two years. (There has been a drought since 1998.) In Anjar, I spot a group of urchins drinking bottled mineral water. Even the barren earth has turned bountiful: geologists report that the quake has created a new "river," a 100-km channel of fresh water from a subterranean lake is snaking its way across the rann. Hindu priests immediately pronounce this to be the Saraswati, the mythical holy river that disappeared into the ground thousands of years ago. Here and there, there are reports of new ponds bursting to the surface, but just...
...Franzoni, whose wife found Coleman while watching a Learning Channel documentary on original Roman gladiators, says he recognizes where the film went wrong...
...Eminem was the least of the squalor. He has a smart high school sophomore's dark literacy and the good grace to attempt maneuvers of dissociation (you see, it's not me who's crazy and violent but the voices I channel from others in our sick society). He rapped a number purporting to be made up of menacing messages from a nutcase fan, working in counterpoint with Elton John, a benevolent marshmallow in a clown suit, still exhaling faux poetics in the "Candle in the Wind" mode. Watching Eminem's body English, I thought of the Japanese expression henna...