Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protesters were not interested in listening to Will's penetrating critique of the deficiencies of liberalism. Indeed, they did not care to listen to Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel's indictment of conservatism either. Instead, they came to challenge the right of students to listen to viewpoints different from those of these "protesters...
...downtown slum. Danny (Michael Richards of Seinfeld) is a wild-eyed, left-wing paranoid, certain that every knock on the door heralds the arrival of the FBI; Arthur (Maury Chaykin) is a soft-spoken collector of wedding-cake figures, snow domes and rubber balls that he teaches Steven to listen to, convinced the voices of the children who once bounced them still echo faintly inside...
...gift for conveying honest sentiment without permitting us to wallow in it, and he's at his craftsmanlike best here. The flaky charms of Unstrung Heroes will be lost on some hardened souls, and it does have its self-conscious, even slightly self-congratulatory moments. But don't listen to their braying. Listen instead for the minor-key melody of a very seductive movie...
...always have been [ready to discuss my views with students,]" Mansfield said. "I wonder why they didn't stay to listen to the class...
...advice," Will said yesterday of the recommendation he gave students two years ago. "But I had to often that advice when I wasn't there. Now they can listen to me and do everything I say...Just kidding...