Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trying to crack a defensive shell is about as exciting and frustrating for the Crimson as it is for anyone to listen to Donald Fehr talk about the future of baseball...
...years that have intervened between his first and second speeches at the sight have seen the issue of family values move from the exclusive province of the right wing to a place squarely in the center of the American political scene. Listen to Jesse Jackson. Listen to Marian Wright Edelman. These pillars of the Left now make speeches that are in many ways indistinguishable--in substance, if not style--from those of Quayle and William Bennett, perhaps the leading commentator on the American crisis of values...
...listen up, and in five minutes you can know more about Crimson sports than most seniors. Excluding Mather House, of course...
...nifty minivans and reborn muscle cars, Detroit's compacts continued to deserve their reputation as cheap, homely, unreliable and, well, maybe a cut above Yugos and Trabants and the like, but not by much. Even their makers now admit that American compacts have been, for the most part, junk. Listen to Ford's Jerry Auth, a marketing executive: "Small cars built by Ford, GM and Chrysler were considered inferior -- and they were." Says Chrysler's Walter Battle, a planning manager: "They were regarded as basically underpowered, and maybe not safe." No wonder Detroit accounted for only...
...last piece on the disc is the widelyknown "Tahiti Trot," based on the popular Vincent Youman tune "Tea for Two." As the story goes, Shostakvich orchestrated the theme in 40 minutes after a challenge by a friend. Chintz turns into schmaltz at this point; the listener is treated to a seemingly endless (actually only three-minute-33-second) passing of the mindless theme from section to section. The best advice here is to listen for the melding of one texture into the next. Shostakovich manages to keep within the same balance of bass and treble parts, though he sometimes bursts...