Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meal around a particular ingredient, was so fiercely serious that it provided entertainment aplenty. Now, though, the Food Network has fashioned it into perhaps the most exciting cooking show ever made, simply by adding a mix of dubbing and subtitles. In the show's current incarnation, you can listen to a Bob Costas-like commentator as he is interrupted by Christiane Amanpour-esque reports from the chefs' camps ("We can definitely see something being applied to the beef--and it's not bread crumbs!"). All that and usable tips on Asian cooking...
...mostly, he says, his job now is "basically to listen to as many people as I can listen...
...mostly, he says, his job now is "basically to listen to as many people as I can listen...
...have much to learn from children and don't really value their opinions, except on topics like, say, ice cream," says David Elkind, professor of child development at Tufts University and author of The Hurried Child (1981). "Kids do have interesting ideas, if you're willing to listen. And I think sometimes adults are not civil enough with kids, saying please, thank you, apologizing for breaking promises...
...LISTEN...