Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than 50 people attended the conference, including undergraduates, Law School students and others. Participants convened in the Law School's Austin Hall from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. to listen, ask questions and enjoy complementary sandwiches and nachos...
...made a deal," says CHARLIE MATTHAU of directing his dad WALTER in The Grass Harp. "He'd listen to my directions. However, at any time, if so ordered, I'd put on a sweater." Such are the compromises one has to make as the offspring and the director of a star parent. Still, it can't be that horrid, since a spate of families have taken to the set together with happy results. NICK CASSAVETES wrote and directed Unhook the Stars as a "love letter" to his mom GENA ROWLANDS, and, he says, "she sent me one with her amazing...
Blessed or pained? Either route has us believing that Reich has had to sacrifice. If we consider him blessed, it is because the pain of his sacrifice is small compared to the magnitude of his blessing. If you listen carefully though, there is an undercurrent in Reich's article that makes this whole question of tone seem preposterous...
...China's other hand is a fist. In Hong Kong Thursday, pro-democracy activists rallied outside a conference hall that will tomorrow host China foreign minister Qian Qichen at a meeting to pick Hong Kong's first leader under Chinese rule, which begins July 1. "Qian needs to listen to Hong Kong people's views, not only the views of people who support China," said legislator Andrew Cheng of the Democrats, Hong Kong's biggest political party. So today, with apt timing, China dispensed a summary reminder to Hong Kong--and to the world--that it is neither responsive...
...Small Repairs (Columbia), Colvin meets the Zeitgeist halfway. The harmonica, the assertive fuzz guitar, the typeface of the lyric sheet are all Morissettish. And if that cozens people to give her CD a necessary second listen, it will be a smart move for both Colvin and her new audience. What's crucial is that the voice hasn't changed; instead of Morissette's sandpaper, Colvin has a silky sound that she wears like sackcloth to suit her pretty dirges. These songs, most of which she wrote with her producer, John Leventhal, still have the swank and cutting edge of Colvin...