Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vice Presidents who campaigned separately, Clinton and Gore bonded on the tour bus, creating a chemistry that seems to endure. Says Democratic political consultant Bob Squier: "They got to know each other so well that they came to talk in a shorthand only they could understand. You had to listen very closely to follow." Clinton even integrated his staff with Gore's to prevent White House infighting. Says Roy Neel, who served Gore before becoming a deputy chief of staff to Clinton: "The tension between the presidential and vice-presidential protectors, which has destroyed many a Vice President, never...
...sitting target for the brick that shattered her windshield. She and her friends ran for a nearby gas station, but her assailants were faster. "We tried to tell them that she was just another student," says Sindiswa Bevu, who was in the car. "But some didn't listen." When the murder was done and Bevu asked why, one of the killers replied, "Because she's a settler...
...Missouri Pacific, views the Missouri River bluffs where Abraham Lincoln stood and pointed to the spot where the Union Pacific would begin in 1862. Through Davidson's window come the faint calls of trains hustling along the valley. "I still get emotional when I get on a locomotive and listen to those turbochargers kick in," he says...
...Look! Attack things with your eyes. See them fiercely. Listen! Hear everything, ignore nothing. Smell! Breathe deeper than you've ever dared. Experience. Be. But, above all, remember. Carve adamantine letters in your brain: 'This I have seen and done and known.' Amen...
...dominant animal at Tanglewood is, without a doubt, the social one, and here lies the crux of the enigma. The social animal does not come to a concert to listen to music; it comes to see, be seen and to be able to recount what it saw. Turnout was probably increased more by the magnitude of the soloists' reputations than the prerequisite quality of their playing. An up-and-coming pair of players might not have fared so well in this environment...