Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trip Hawkins, founder and chairman of 3DO, was one of the first to see that Hollywood and the video-game industry were headed toward a happy collision. With his salesman patter and show-biz smile, he has for years been telling anyone who would listen that video arcades were more popular than movie houses -- and he would rattle off the numbers to prove it. As chairman of Electronic Arts, a leading maker of video games (and the first to treat its programmers like rock stars), he also railed against the electronics industry for failing to agree on a single video...
...room grew so crowded that they sat on the floor and windowsills and peeked in the door. A lack of coatracks forced members to dump wraps on the floor. At each session, task-force leaders would present their progress on, for example, the emerging benefits package. Magaziner would listen, ask questions and nudge members in the direction he wanted. Magaziner kept the Clintons abreast of progress, and the President sometimes invited individual members over for briefings in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Tollgates would go on for 10 or 12 hours, sometimes 16, break for three or four...
...emotional entrapment: "I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for a week . . . I was drawn into your magnet tar pit trap." In contrast, many of the Albini pieces sound ravaged, almost ruined; but as with buried treasures, there are rewards for persistence and exploration. If you listen repeatedly to such sonically explosive songs as Serve the Servants and Pennyroyal Tea, the structure of each gradually becomes clear, and melodies surface...
Some twentysomethings, Beavis Generationers mutter under their breath, listen to--and enjoy--their parents' music. The Beav of the 90s would never give Mommy or Daddy the satisfaction...
...Listen to this requirement for the testing of 'finish, floor, nonbuffing.' 'Cut a two-and-one-half-inch square of aluminum foil of three millimeters thickness minimum, having one side mirror bright. Wash the square with alcohol and air dry. The mirror-bright side should give a spectrum that differs less than 2% transmittance from the standard front-surface test used in the specular reflectants accessory.' " A reporter interjects, "Why don't we do this later?" Gore says, "This will just take a second...