Word: channeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abstract imagery of geometric shapes and drips of paint in most of the works at the museum frees the art from connotations of material aspects of culture. The monumental size of the paintings gives them inescapable presence. Once in the room, the viewer cannot change the channel-he must look. The power of an undiluted red surface with stripes of white on each end by Barnett Newman stretches beyond the viewer's field of vision if he stands close. To see the whole he must stand back. By their sheer size the paintings scream for recognition, protesting the decreasing space...
Theoretically, the proposal is intended to reopen American college hockey as a means of developing. American talent for the professional leagues. Canadian performers have the Junior leagues to provide the necessary preparatory channel. Americans have ... American college hockey. And, argues the NCAA, Canadian imports are choking off that channel in the United States...
...view. John Davies, outgoing director general of the Confederation of British Industry -whose U.S. equivalent is the National Association of Manufacturers-summed up the feeling recently in a farewell speech to his members. "The postwar history of our relationship with continental Europe," said Davies, directing his remarks across the Channel as well, "is one of missed opportunities, and not only on our side. The longer we postpone trying to develop as a continent rather than as a series of increasingly inadequate nation states, the more remote will become the time when we shall really exercise the influence in the world...
...entering its fourth week of national exposure, "Sesame Street" promises to become one of the most popular children's programs on TV. In the show's first week on New York's educational channel, it attracted a viewing audience four times greater than the channel ever had before, Lesser said...
...death camp spend most of the evening dumping each other in and out of wheelbarrows, piecing together homely sections of stovepipe and finally, one by one, entering a crematorium. The playgoer's knowledge that the pipes that the members of the cast have strung about the stage will channel the smoke of their own burning flesh makes Akropolis the most powerful indictment of genocide that has been rendered in the theater...