Word: channelling
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...many years, Bostonians have taken pride in the high quality of our local newscasts, in particular those of perennial favorite Channel 5, WCVB...
Emboldened by his success with Condor, MacCready set his sights on a second Kremer Prize, [pound]100,000, to be awarded this time for the first crossing of the English Channel by a man-powered aircraft. Piece of cake. In 1979 a greatly improved version of the Condor, the Gossamer Albatross, successfully flew across 23 miles of Channel water...
...coming decades? His image - the winking, wisecracking, pistol-packing hero-clown - is already showing signs of age. The '80s-style action movie he mastered is past its prime, and Gibson looks all of his 44 years, if not a bit more. Not long ago, during a late night of channel surfing, he says, "I snuck up on (1983's) "The Year of Living Dangerously." I watched a couple of minutes and thought, 'Hell...
...Agree with his judicial philosophy or not, for instance, but Antonin Scalia's dripping sarcasm alone could fuel a small cable channel's ratings. Under questioning, Florida secretary of state lawyer Joseph Klock began, "We have not addressed the federal issues, because -" Scalia cut him off: "Well, this is a federal court!" To Laurence Tribe, on the question of whether the Florida legislature might have "invited" the state supreme court's intervention, Scalia - alluding to legislature's disdain for court action, sneered, "Maybe your experience of the legislative branch is different from mine...
...religious training that formulated his later, jaded worldview. One childhood game found him entertaining his sisters by pretending to be a priest saying mass; an early sexual experience occurred when he began to study under the Jesuits, who, he revealed to one interviewer, would attempt to channel young boys' sexual urges by encouraging them to masturbate to a statue of the Blessed Mother. Years later, while living at a now-famed students' residence in Madrid (where he first encountered Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali), Buñuel took his childhood game a step further by wandering the streets dressed...