Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Game. Other promising acts from this school are on the way. An advance copy of British trip-hop folkie Pauline Taylor's just-finished album indicates she is a blazing talent; Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter Kacy Crowley is another one to watch, judging by an early listen to her confident debut, Anchorless; and Chantal Kreviazuk's just-out Under These Rocks and Stones is also a charmer...
...drama as he does on what many might think the real star of the film: the musicians and their music. In one stunning, rollicking sequence, two jazz musicians duel away: the camera rushes from one to the other, then to both, and finally, plainly, gives up and lets us listen. And the eyes of the jazz musicians alone hold another entire movie with-in the movie. The music functions as a kind of running commentary on the movie: horns roar and seem to laugh cynically as one event unfolds and then another. At one point Mrs. Stilton, napping with Blondie...
...hysterical over this. They want the U.S. to understand there's no need to abandon ship, because the repairs aren't really an urgent issue. Their feeling is they've had Mir up there for 11 years and that they can go a little longer. But when we listen to the cosmonauts themselves, they're audibly tense, worried and exhausted...
...After Custer's defeat at the battle of Little Big Horn, reports say his ears were slit, a supposed admonition from the Sioux to listen more carefully...
...going to happen? The small towns are going to become the big cities all over again." Already nostalgia may have been oversold in some places. Says a resident of Sedalia, Mo.: "We had so many people putting on a cantata for Easter that we didn't have people to listen...