Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...author went to Columbia for an M.F.A. degree in writing. He has taught writing at several colleges, most recently at Harvard. He lives with a friend in a leafy backwater just north of Harvard Square. Mystery writer Robert Parker is a neighbor. McCauley radiates satisfaction with his life. To listen to him is to recall his book and a passage in which someone describes a 19th century novel "as if the author and most of the characters were close friends." As surely as Victorians did, McCauley has tapped into that source...
...know. I don't know because this is a strange year. How many Americans are out there who won't listen to anybody who holds any elected office, who has ever been identified with any political party? I don't know. And that really is unfathomable...
Immediate courtship of Perot loyalists maywork, Peterson said. But he suggested that, facedwith the initial disappointment with theircandidate's unexpected exit, his supporters mightnot yet be ready to listen--even to thenow-familiar mantra of change...
...participants of the workshop will listen to a talk on the legal background on the issue. They will also view video recorded vignettes to learn what constitutes sexual harassment, according to Ishikawa...
...singing elegies to the millennium. Now comes the Irish quartet CLANNAD (whose lead singer, Maire Brennan, is Enya's sister) and an album, Anam, that has all the right career moves: a duet with U2's Bono, a song from the hit movie Patriot Games. The group merits a listen. Brennan's soprano keenings, in English and Gaelic, are variously backed by cool, Sergio Mendes-style harmonies, a bluesy sax, and a guitar's banshee wailing. But in the tune Harry's Game, Clannad goes spare and liturgical, transmuting New Age tonal banality into ageless, ethereal beauty. If you ever...