Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, Response is a confidential peer counseling hotline and is available to anyone wishing to speak with peers, or to anyone wanting anonymity. We are not here to judge, but to listen. We are open tonight and every night, Sunday through Friday, from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. for calls, and from 8 p.m. to midnight for drop...
While some colleagues found Simon open and willing to listen to suggestions, others complain that he was less than receptive to dissenting ideas. (Walcott was reportedly even more prickly about proposed changes in the book he and Simon had written.) "I guess if you really become insistent on being happy with what's going on, some people are going to think you're difficult," Simon responds. "I don't think so. That's an artist's right." Yet an impending opening can focus the mind, and Simon eventually became convinced that he needed help from an experienced Broadway hand like...
...groove, from Prodigy's brutal electro-punk, across the musical galaxy to the ska-rock band Smash Mouth's upbeat remake of War's Why Can't We Be Friends? Goldie wasn't the only influence, of course, but the sea change has been profound: if you listen to Yield, the grandfatherly new album by alternative-rock pioneers Pearl Jam, it sounds almost flat-footed next to all the rock-'n'-roll booty shaking that's going on elsewhere...
...cultural development. Unfortunately, the legacy of the decade has been stripped of its socially nutritious content. We've elected another philandering playboy to the oval office, but rather than inspiring visions of Camelot, he plombs new depths of sleaze like Jacques Cousteau in an ocean of immorality. We still listen to rock and roll, but while The Beatles have earned their place in the history books, it is unlikely that Oasis, Hootie or any other group of pathetic mimeographers will be remembered beyond the next Billboard cycle...
...willing to hear anything that will get us closer to the truth," Couriel said. "Why not listen to someone as smart as Carlton...