Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...affable manner and eloquent story telling make her a pleasure to listen to even when she discusses unpleasant subjects such as suicides of Vietnam veterans, the war in the Gulf and issues of control and power surrounding women in America. Her use of an electronically deepened voice to imitate Reagan is at once funny and disturbing--like Reagan himself. A comic video interlude in which she appears as a freaky video dwarf reveals her light-heartedness and willingness to have fun. Anderson is not afraid to laugh at herself, but she maintains a serious impassioned monologue...
When I confronted Jeffries with these facts last Wednesday, Jeffries seemed shocked. First he insisted that the Dutch West India Company did deal in slavery--that is, he didn't listen to my question. The moderater intervened to make Jeffries answer my question...
...Hours after the box offices | opened, all 56,000 seats for M.C. Hammer's concert at the Tokyo Dome were spoken for. Millions of dollars' worth of CDs -- from New Age to rap to jazz to blues -- are bought at stores like Tower Records. Don't want to buy? Listen to American music on J-Wave (81.3 FM), presented by English-speaking deejays with names like Jon and Carole...
When the chairman of the Federal Reserve speaks -- especially in the midst of a prolonged recession -- people listen. Last week Alan Greenspan had the ears of Washington and Wall Street peeled during Senate hearings on his confirmation to a second term (all but a foregone conclusion). Greenspan defended the go-slow policy in reducing interest rates to revive the economy. He also warned against a bidding war between the White House and Congress to see which could make the deepest...
...opportunity to understand the position of the police as it relates to certain subjects in the community, and to listen to the individuals that impact on our service," Anderson said...