Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite intermittent rain, more than 1,500 students came to the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) Quad on Saturday afternoon to listen to bands, win prizes and eat cotton candy as part of SpringFest...
...When I was shopping my tapes around in my late teens, record companies would automatically send me to the guy in the black division," says Lenny Kravitz, whose guitar-driven music is deeply indebted to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, among others. "They would listen and say, 'We hear your talent, but you really can't make this music.' They would try to steer me toward pop." Guitarist Vernon Reid's sound reflects what he recalls as a "heretical" musical upbringing, shaped equally by Chaka Khan and Led Zeppelin. Angry and baffled by the failure of major record labels...
...gets out of school at 3:30 p.m. and goes straight home to have a snack and do her homework. Three afternoons a week she leaves again at 4:45 for a juku session that lasts from 5:10 to 10:00. For almost the entire class, Akiko will listen to tutors explain how to answer test questions and will practice taking them herself. She sometimes attends all day on Sunday for extra help. The classes give Akiko a better chance of getting into a local private junior high school, and that in turn virtually guarantees her admission...
...entirely different game. Let me humbly offer a unique test for determining whether a computer can think. I call it the Dylan test. Build two artificial-intelligence machines exactly alike and load them with exactly the same software. Then put some Bob Dylan music for them to listen to. When one machine hates it and the other loves it, you have some real thinking going on. DELIO DESTRO Sao Paulo, Brazil Via E-mail...
Yesterday was a beautiful day to be in one of baseball's last shrines, to listen to the national anthem, to chase down a foul ball and to watch one team lose to another team by 11 runs...