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n. (plural of tunnel English)
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The are an owarai duo with a long history composed of Tokyo born and . Both of them attended where Ishibashi, the taller of the two, participated in baseball, and Kinashi participated in soccer.
They originated not as a manzai duo, so much as an ippatsu gag and monomane act. During the early 80's, they became immensely popular with young Japanese audiences, appearing in several television shows, but their popularity exploded with their show . Many times they absorbed more than 30% of nationwide television viewers, a great feat for any television show. They then turned their attention to creating music, spawning a string of hit singles that also generated massive sales and attention.
They created many words and expressions that resonated with the youth of Japan included such as and , which are abbreviations meaning "ex-boyfriend" and "ex-girlfriend". Both phrases are still in popular use today. Also, their tendency to use inside jokes that only the show's staff would understand and laugh at created a sur-like response from the audience, inciting nervous laughter from a confused audience, while the staff laughed loudly on-mike.
Interest in the group quickly mellowed in 1990, as Tunnels took a half year vacation from the show, and U-tchan Nan-chan suddenly replaced them. They returned later saying "We are sorry to have laid the burden on U-tchan Nan-chan," but were never really accepted back by the public. As groups such as Downtown and U-tchan Nan-chan become more and more popular with young audiences, Tunnels changed their focus to talk and interview-related shows.
Recently, they have teamed with DJ Ozma to "produce" the group Yazima Beauty Salon, who the three found in America. In reality, Ozma and the Tunnels are the members of Yazima Beauty Salon, cross-dressing and performing in character as Margaret Camelia Yazima (Kinashi) and Strawberry Camelia Yazima (Ishibashi).
Tunnels is a subterranean fiction novel by British authors Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. It was initially self-published as The Highfield Mole in 2005, and re-released as Tunnels by Chicken House in 2007. The story follows Will Burrows, a 14-year-old 'archaeologist', who stumbles upon an underground civilization called The Colony. Will and friend Chester flee The Colony and set out to find Will's father, in the Deeps, a place even deeper in the Earth than The Colony.
Tunnels was critically well received, although some complaints about its lengthy, slow start were recorded. The book placed on The New York Times Children's Chapter Books Bestseller List in February and March 2008. It is the first book in the Tunnels series, and was followed by Deeper (2008), Freefall (2009), Closer (2010), Spiral (2011) and Terminal (2013). BBC Audiobooks and Recorded Books have released audio editions. On February 28, 2013, Relativity Media announced Mikael Håfström would direct a film adaptation of the novel.
Usage examples of "tunnels".
I understand there was a survey of existing tunnels done in the 1920s for the proposed Interborough Rapid Transit system.
Water Pit: a labyrinth of shafts and tunnels that honeycombs the heart of a small island off the coast of Maine.
Unlike earlier tunnels, the Boston Shaft was not a vertical pit, but was instead cut on a slope.
By this time, the original location of the Water Pit had been lost among the countless flooded side shafts, holes, and tunnels that riddled the heart of the island.
So many tunnels were dug that a good part of the island is waterlogged and unstable.
How else could they build underwater flood tunnels without the benefit of scuba gear?
Seismographic sensors registered some small cave-ins, but they were in adjoining side tunnels and pits, not the main shaft.
I want everyone to make as many observations as possible: the condition of the cribbing, the size and number of the tunnels, anything that seems pertinent.
Glancing down, Hatch could see Neidelman playing his beam into two ragged openings on either side of the shaft, tunnels that led off into darkness.
They began to come across additional openings cut into the cribbed walls, where tunnels branched off or secondary shafts intersected the main pit.
Until now, the horizontal tunnels opening into the side of the shaft had been crude and ragged, poorly shored, some partially caved in.
There were numerous side tunnels and shafts that were still extremely dangerous, but they had been marked with yellow tape and were off limits to all but the remote mapping teams.
There were few horizontal tunnels on the island, and almost all of them were riddled with intersecting vertical shafts.
Apparently, they discovered a badly decomposed head during a search of some railroad tunnels yesterday afternoon.
On the other hand, it could have been, say, a pack of feral dogs roaming the tunnels, attacking, killing, and dismembering.