Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outside the White House, Johnson said of Bush, "Everybody wants him to speak out more, and he needs to. He's the most powerful man in the world. If he speaks out and says that it's out here and he cares ... then people will listen...
...Republican counterpart, the late Lee Atwater, to ramrod a congressional pay raise through the House of Representatives in virtual secrecy. Ron Brown, sitting a few feet away, winced. On the road, Jerry Brown's message is a hit with student audiences but draws mixed responses from older crowds who listen, but with some skepticism. The message keeps running afoul of the messenger's past reputation...
Will the rise of nationalism lead to anti-Semitism and racism? Yes, but standing at the funeral for three victims of the coup last August (one of whom was Jewish), I saw a crowd of 100,000 listen to the Kaddish, the Hebrew prayer of mourning. Just last winter, the reading of my translation of Bernstein's Kaddish at the Moscow conservatory seemed extraordinary. But what about the demons of democracy who sell anti-Semitic literature like Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in Moscow underpasses...
Just as demanding was the education he undertook to make his love affair with Ebaugh work the second time around. In counseling, the man about whom it is said that talking to him is like listening to a radio began to tame his mouth. "I started to listen, and not be judgmental, and wait until someone was through rather than interrupting them, and then think about what they said before I prepared an answer," he says. "I learned to give and take better than I had previously...
Donald Trump's jet is gone, his yacht repossessed, his casinos are ailing, but he still has plenty of financial advice. Anybody care to listen? . . . The art market collapsed after its 1980s hysteria. Old masters still fetch a fortune, but the products of hustlers like Julian Schnabel have fallen off the wall . . . L.A. Gear, the trendy sneaker outfit that not long ago talked of whipping Reebok and Nike, has proved that when it comes to athletic shoes, fashion is fleeting . . . Louisiana voters were spared the ex-Klansman and instead got the twice-indicted womanizing gambler. Some choice . . . Clark Clifford, former...