Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weak third place." Then after the debate, to confirm the conspiracy, the scripted words spilled obediently from the lips of Bush campaign advisers. All night they cawed in unison: "It was a big win for the President." "Clinton was cautious and weak," they astutely explained to whomever would listen...
Class activities are designed to model realworld situations. For the first segment, studentsconsidering the problem of ozone depletion werebroken up into groups and charged with developingcompeting policy recommendations. Another group ofstudents will pose as the president's domesticpolicy council, listen to the policyrecommendations and make a judgment...
...barroom rock band announces the arrival of Rush H. Limbaugh III, 41. "Ensconced in the Attila the Hun Chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies," Rush is ready to turn the disparate American radio audience into one big ear. "Turn it up, folks," he commands. "Listen loud...
...needn't bother; his personality is as loud and colorful as his neckties. But his audience does listen up, some of them in "Rush rooms" -- parts of restaurants where the show is piped in for the faithful. They'll talk back too, to offer either "mega-dittos" (indicating total agreement with the host) or nega-dittos. "When he calms down and stops horsing around," says erstwhile movie star Jane Russell, "he speaks common American sense, which we've been throwing into the toilet." Russell's husband, the crusty Texan John Peoples, adds, "If bulls--- was music...
Today's game, then, is for the season. Just listen to the players...