Word: channeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mammoth's head had been excavated in previous weeks, the scientists reattached the tusks to the block of ice before the helicopter transport. The result was something akin to Dumbo the flying ice cube--a press spectacle just awe-inspiring enough to make any avid watcher of the Discovery Channel...
Although Palahniuk agreed with Faludi's analysis of the problem, he said he thought weekly bareknuckle bouts would be cathartic. "Men need violence. We are very much still animals," he said from his home in Portland, Ore., the least manly city in North America. "We can channel violent feelings into working hard and buying things, but they keep popping up. We need to acknowledge that they are not bad feelings; they are human feelings," he said. I asked him why, in that case, the fight clubs in his novel caused so many problems. "Because it was a book...
Formerly known as the Learning Channel, TLC wasn't always this intuitive. Before Discovery Communications acquired it in 1991, the channel's more scintillating programs included an IRS-sponsored instructional called The Subject Is Taxes and the crafts-oriented Sew What's New. Translating its pedagogical mission into warmer, fuzzier, but still informative reality fare for women fell to daytime-programming chief Chuck Gingold, who had worked at Lifetime and had noticed the huge success of shows about weddings like that of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. With heightened competition for the women's market, voyeurism at a premium...
...quickly becomes calcified. But that may not happen with Dogme. The Danes who made the first four films under it are planning a millennial blast. Each will film part of a script written by the four, and each director's scenes will be shown live on a different TV channel on Dec. 31, with viewers doing their own editing by flicking the remote. And as U.S. auteurs, locked in stasis, consider the next century, the Danish challenge might look appealing. Who better than Spielberg to teach an old Dogme new tricks...
...eventually see a Law and Order channel. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Law and Order Breakfast, Law and Order at Night...