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Word: listenability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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These three guys are playing their guts out. Rocks need more albums like this one. The songs on Let Me Come Over are truly memorable, and only get better the more you listen to them. Buffalo Tom is putting passion back into an affected and boring alternative music scene...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Buffalos and Hogs: A musical Menagerie | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

...When some of us whose speech patterns conformless to that of the ideal rational male spoke,some of you openly snickered, or even worse, didnot even bother to listen to what we had to say,"the editors wrote, addressing the LawReview...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law Review Apologizes For Parody of Frug Piece | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Admittedly, mau-mauing is a dubious tactic, but the sad fact is that politics have changed: If we want to make our representatives listen to us, we have to hit them with weapons they understand. Unresponsive politicians would learn quickly that ignoring constituents with cameras, voices and energy does not pay. This tactic forces our politicians, who are widely perceived as disconnected to citizens, to connect or be burned...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Mau-Mauing the Spin Doctors | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Most importantly, it would make politicians listen to a constituency that is largely ignored. Politicians can count, and they know we don't vote. But we represent the future--a very compelling interest. If we start to make politicians hear us, we may change the way they think...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Mau-Mauing the Spin Doctors | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Just before the money ran out, they concocted some new gags for Kricfalusi's repellent cat and dog, and he pitched the show to anyone who would listen. "Watching John present an idea is like watching Robin Williams playing the part of Kirk Douglas," says an admiring Disney director. "He doesn't talk, he explodes, acting all the parts, doing the sound effects, falling down, jumping up, waggling his beard, drawing, singing, laughing, crying. He's animation's irresistible force of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loonier Toon Tales | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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