Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Believe it or not, many Asians are making exactly those pitches right now--in more muted terms, to be sure--to U.S. executives and investors. Still more surprising, some of the prospective buyers are beginning to listen. They include a few who only weeks ago would have replied with some more polite variation of "Bug off! Do you think I'm crazy...
...inspired by the old masters--Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley--but she reshapes her nostalgia into fresh sounds, blending neo-soul vocalese and rap rhymes, all powered by hip-hop beats. She soars beyond easy sampling and mere pastiche: her songs are of the moment, but built to last. Listen to her voice and hear a new world...
...selects is invariably last year's model. As such, it has plummeted in price--sometimes as much as 50%. Her machine is hardly obsolete: it does what mine does, though somewhat slower. (Her kids are grown; she has time.) She can browse the Web on a 56-K modem, listen to music on modest speakers, play games, run spreadsheets, and make me feel guilty via e-mail for not visiting more often. She paid $800 for it, two years...
...world has its own version of Soma: Ritalin. The list of behaviors that help determine if a child is hyperactive and a candidate for Ritalin is a list of behaviors all children exhibit at one time or another. Our job as parents is to teach our children to listen, sit still, concentrate and be patient and responsible. I fear what sort of adults these medicated children will become. MARY MANCINELLI South Lyon, Mich...
...course, Oriol admits that today's world is different from the world of the late '60s. In the late '90s, we probably eye her "listen to your heart" advice with some suspicion. Sure, a pressure exists, especially at Harvard, to go into professions that will make the hefty Harvard tuition worth the expense...