Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...write books away from the distractions of their Tennessee home base. Every evening the pair would emerge from a day of writing in their cabins to watch the "green flash," which can sometimes be seen just before the sun disappears below the horizon. "He'd talk, and I'd listen," Haley recalls. "Lamar talked night after night about the desperate need to improve American education. It was in his marrow. He felt impotent to do the things that needed to be done...
...Sweaty, hairy things! They think every problem can be solved with either fists or power tools, and they don't know how to shop, cook or listen. In so many modern movies, a guy is a goon with a grudge, a hyperactive child on steroids. The summer blockbusters show how he can die hard or douse a forest fire or terminate the bad guys. But he still needs educating, humanizing. Why, with a woman's touch, a man can be a mensch -- warm, winsome, wonderful, wuvable and all those other sweet w adjectives. Also, in Hollywood's late-summer films...
...more than a decade. Thierree, the show's resident jester and prestidigitator, and Chaplin, who does stunning acrobatics and uses modest props to transform herself into a virtual bestiary, credit audience reactions with shaping Le Cirque's evolution. Says Chaplin: "The circus, or vaudeville, must listen to the audience and try to meet its wishes or, even better, its dreams...
...Algerian people are Muslims," says the voice on the minaret's loudspeaker. "The police who prevent people from coming to prayers are not true Muslims." Security forces surrounding the mosque listen impassively as the message grows more strident. "This government ruined the country. It is the people who suffer from the economic crisis. The government claims it is Muslim, but if it is, why won't it proclaim Shari'a ((Islamic law))? The people of Algeria want an Islamic state. They should be allowed to choose this freely...
Keyola Lackey got pregnant in the 10th grade and dropped out of school. A year after her baby was born, she got pregnant again. With no husband and no job, she was living on welfare. Her mother begged her to go back to school, but Lackey wouldn't listen. Then, three years ago, Wisconsin state officials delivered a blunt message. "They told me I had to go to school to keep getting benefits," she recalls. "It was a big push." Last year she graduated from high school, and she is now studying to be an accountant at Milwaukee Area Technical...