Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voice is intimate, sonorous, authoritative, urgent. It has stories to ( tell, issues to explore, products to promote. One product above all: itself. Turn on one of 400 radio stations around midday, and listen...
...first listen, the mind spins, the ear reels. It sounds as if Ted Baxter, the preposterously pompous anchorman on the old Mary Tyler Moore sitcom, had escaped into the ether and had been resurrected as a talk-show host. Dial scanners have to wonder: Is this guy kidding? Well, of course. Sometimes. As when he announces the Limbaugh neutron bomb: "It vaporizes liberals but leaves conservatives standing." Or when he bleats a duh-duh-lut duh-duh-lut fanfare, announcing a Pee-wee Herman news update to the tune of Michael Jackson's Beat It. Or when he handicaps N.F.L...
...first shared that bedroom with Luddy -- Ludlow Ogden Smith -- her only husband. Though they separated almost immediately, he remained a part of her family, and she chastises herself for having abused him. "Listen to this," says Hepburn. "I made him change his name . . . to S. Ogden Ludlow. I didn't want to be called Mrs. Smith. I thought it was melancholic." Her true love, of course, was Spencer Tracy. "He didn't like this or that. I changed this and that . . . Food -- we ate what he liked. We did what he liked. We lived a life which he liked. This...
...Brown of today, while he may no longer date singer Linda Ronstadt, still talks like a flake. Take a listen...
...investment bankers haven't learned their lesson. They're still gung-ho, they're still knocking on doors, even though the business isn't there, and they're still blowing smoke. The danger is that they may find some chief executives with big egos who will listen." But while Wall Street's wheeler-dealers may lust for their old profits, power and glory, a return to '80s-style overborrowing is something that companies -- and the rest of the country -- know they can no longer afford...