Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether the Palestinian delegation brings good will is harder to know. Assad is a dictator. Listen to him and hear the Syrian line. The Palestinians, however, bring a fragmented team to Madrid. Some, like newspaper editor Sari Nussiebah, say that the conference is less an opportunity to talk with the Israelis than a chance to rally the world against Israel. Other members of the Palestinian team declare in almost every public forum that they represent the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), knowing that Israel has promised to abandon the conference if the PLO participates...
...favor of the petition, saying she has been treating her multiple sclerosis for 10 years by smoking cannabis. "The marijuana I smoke...has enabled me to go on and do things I want to do," she told the council. "I think it's disgusting that people don't listen, because it's very sad. Marijuana helps a lot of people therapeutically...
...doesn't listen. Nobody listens in the government," said the grocery owner...
...whom I recognized as members of the foreign press corps, both known for their jaundiced eye and acid wit. My heart sank. It suddenly occurred to me that having spent days watching our politicians make prime-time fools of themselves, we Americans were soon going to have to listen to Europeans lecture us on how immature and naive we are. We heard it during Watergate, and we'd hear it again now: Grow up, America! Start behaving like a superpower instead of a Sunday school...
...hear Morrison courting this muse in the Pentecostal growls and incantations of Listen to the Lion on his 1972 album Saint Dominic's Preview, or personifying it on his new album in Village Idiot, whose protagonist "wears his overcoat in the summer/ And short sleeves in the winter time" but who is nourished by some secret spiritual serenity: "Don't you know he's onto something . . . / Sometimes he looks so happy/ As he goes strolling...