Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Student groups...are a great resource for the administration to tap during orientation," he says. "[I]t often seems that first-years listen more to other students than to administrators...
...know now that Clinton did lie to us, and he lied to us for over two years, first by omission and then by angrily denouncing the allegations and denying all wrong-doing. He acted like a scolding teacher, telling the American people to "Listen up, because I'm only going to say this once." As if he thought we weren't listening. As if he thought we were children...
That's one reason people listen to hip-hop: they want that fire, that passion. And right now, to paraphrase hip-hop folkie Beck, rap is where it's at. In 1995 rap albums accounted for just 6.7% of all music sales; through the first half of this year that figure has risen to 10.3%. By contrast, over the same period, rock's market share fell, from 33.5% to 28%. In their new book It's Not Only Rock & Roll: Popular Music in the Lives of Adolescents (Hampton Press), Peter G. Christenson and Donald F. Roberts declare that today...
...handful of tracks Robyn Springer and Gerrell Gaddis sing, and the CD comes to life. When Springer takes the lead on Ain't It Good to Know, the album leaps to the foreground. You pull over in traffic, put down the dishes, cuddle closer and just listen...
...reputation, keeping his London and Paris apartments eerily intact. "It is like the Egyptian pyramids," he says. "When you die, everything that belongs to you is put around--everything that you love, your things, food. From time to time I go to Dodi's apartment. I sit there. I listen to prayers. I feel he is there...