Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...printed program attempts to defuse any violent reaction to the composer's contemporary style: "The piece is accessible to anyone who will open his or her ears and listen carefully to it, giving it as much attention as a film with a complex plot." This was correct in one respect: listening to Dallapiccola's Variations invoked the sensation of watching last year's Mission: Impossible. No matter how much one tried to pay attention to the plot's convolutions, one was continually plagued by the question, "What is going on?" while the sole consolation was the star quality...
...shadow" him for a day, without him knowing that you were there. In your quest to explore his life, you follow him back from class to his room, where he sits around and cracks jokes with his roommates for a while before calling his mom. Over dinner, you listen as he talks with a friend who just failed a test, managing to convince her that it's not such a big deal. Later, you read over his shoulder as he writes an e-mail to a high school buddy about the things he likes and dislikes about this semester...
...from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.--while Dylan sleeps. But Payanzo, an anthropology concentrator, is also taking more difficult classes this semester and works five to six hours a week at the Derek Bok Learning Center for Teaching and Learning. No longer a complacent newborn, Dylan will no longer listen patiently as Payanzo reads her French homework to him. Instead, he tears out the pages from her African history textbook...
...family has never celebrated Christmas, which means that the Christmas tree and the cheerful Christmas carols celebrating Jesus on high, although beautiful to see and listen to, do not remind me of home or herald the upcoming holiday...
...talking tougher, negotiating harder and mincing words less than ever during frequent rants about an industry he says is desperately out of touch with its core consumer. "A lot of these owners have big egos," Ford says. "They like to talk, but few of them like to listen. But they should, because pro sports is in serious danger of alienating the average...