Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wood stove in the living room provides the only warmth on cold days. The seven children huddle together under a thin, frayed blanket. Sometimes they play word games, but mostly they just sit and listen to a car radio hooked up to an old battery. The most popular song of the day is "Soldier of Happiness." It goes...
Unfortunately, the scene is real. Humping the pizza boy, it seems, is some sort of statement about female empowerment. But as the others listen to the couple's moaning and discuss the interlude over white wine in the hot tub, a grumbly male critic starts to have serious questions. What happened to the ( pizza? Is all this really "an uncensored and undiluted glimpse into the heart, soul and mind of the modern American woman," as the press release says, or just a sappy brew of soap-opera banalities and feminist wish fulfillment? And would you please excuse us while...
...Charles County, but the Great Flood is treating them quite differently. Walter Rooney's three-story house sits in 11 ft. of water, yet Rooney, 64, is able to pop a cold beer from the fridge, kick back in his air-conditioned second-story sitting room and listen to music, all thanks to a power line that hasn't been turned off. His brother Ray, 60, isn't so fortunate. "That's my house over there," he says, pointing to a blue roof just above the waterline. "I left my house in the 1973 flood, and they stole everything...
...began dropping into every store in town to socialize -- even when clerks gave him a cold shoulder. He also addressed the local junior high on AIDS. Slowly the town changed. Students started cutting class to hear him speak, and parents appeared in the back of the lecture hall to listen. When Broussard's health deteriorated, a physician in nearby Jennings, John Sabatier, confessed that he knew virtually nothing about AIDS but promised to learn as much as he could as fast as he could. Seventh- and eighth-graders sent letters saying they would never tell a dirty gay joke because...
...wing rebellion against government spending for anything but keeping undesirables out of the neighborhood. But this is not the best of worlds. This shrunken little station is not the glorious conquest of space once rhapsodized about in these and other pages. If it goes up we will have to listen to years of astronaut hyperbole about the joys of drawing blood from each other in orbit. The space station has stunk up the joint long enough. Let the Russians in, or stand aside and let the bum fall...