Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take the day off. He retired to one of his Havana-area homes and began paging through My Truth, a book that tells how Mikhail Gorbachev, in opening the door to reform, failed to control dissent and wound up losing power. These days, Castro will tell anyone willing to listen how determined he is to avoid the Soviet leader's mistakes. As a senior U.S. official says, "There is nothing more threatening to him than a perception in Cuba and around the world that the old man after 37 years ain't what he used...
...addition to telling amusing anecdotes about the first performances of the pieces discussed, Kelly reviews some of the more technical aspects of the music, trying to make sure the students understand the music as they listen to it in the language lab after class...
...more than happy to invite the press in to watch him reach voters the new-fashioned way: recording commercials, videotaping commercials, even writing commercials. His other prime method of communication was decidedly old-fashioned: the speech at the rostrum, where audiences came not to shake his hand but to listen to what...
...techniques that bundle his enemies together and subtly satanize them. His litany of Jewish villain names (ticking off "Goldman, Sachs...Greenspan" as if they were the Elders of Zion) is slyly anti-Semitic; he uses a tone of barroom xenophobia on "Jose," his multipurpose Mexican bashee. He says, "Listen, Mr. Hashimoto [the Japanese Prime Minister]," as if he meant "Mr. Tojo." Buchanan is almost as brilliant at populist bullying as George Wallace was in the days when the Alabaman ranted at "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." After reviewing Buchanan's quotations over the years, even...
Overseas radio is cheap (a good receiver and coil of copper wire cost less than $300), and unlike the Web, coexists effortlessly with washing dishes, pumping the stepping machine or restoring rowboats, nourishing the mind while the body relaxes from hours-long keyboard pounding. It breaks listeners free of computer-terminal chairs and of the monolingual sterility imposed by address and job, but it rewards best those who know more than English and who listen in the clear-air hours just after five in the morning or after eight at night...