Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard needs to learn to listen more closely to the voices from within its own family when moral issues are raised that clearly outweigh its traditional single-minded emphasis on maximizing investment returns. JEROME GROSSMAN '38, CHESTER HARTMAN '57, PH.D '67, VICTOR W. SIDEL M.D. '57, ROBERT PAUL WOLFF '53, PH.D. '57, PETER WOOD...
While no one is predicting the demise of home PCs, smart appliances could soon overtake them as the preferred means for sending e-mail or accessing the Web. "You shouldn't need a $1,000 computer to listen to radio broadcasts or make phone calls over the Internet," says John Latta, president of the research firm 4th Wave of Alexandria, Va. PC-wary shoppers would heartily agree, of course. And the intelligent devices that are heading into stores could encourage even technophobes to get connected...
...came from a small Madison, Wis., shop called Sonic Foundry. Sonic's new line of sound-editing programs lets you create amazing music, even if you have a tin ear. I tried Sonic's Acid Rock ($49.95), which comes with more than 500 sound clips. You can listen to any clip by simply selecting it; when you find a sound you like, slap it onto a track in the editing room. Lay down a bass line, add percussion and instrumentation--the software will even resolve the key so that everything harmonizes. What's new and astounding here is that everything...
Beck's voice on this album sounds worn and weary, as if he's seen it all and seen enough. Everything seems disposed or disposable; his song titles include Cancelled Check, Lazy Flies and Dead Melodies. Yet, calmed by his voice, we lean closer, listen closely. Beck's music does not overwhelm his musings...
...know?" he had scornful reporters saying. "There's no DNA on the dress! Prove it!" Alone among the contestants, Cooper could do passably good imitations, including of Clinton and Gore as teenagers smoking pot. "C'mon," the easygoing Clinton says. "Let's get some pizza and listen to Eat a Peach." To which the uptight Gore responds, "I am freaking out! My mother's going to know...