Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part of it. For the way the basketball system, ever more predatory, operates these days, players of that ability are not likely to hang around college for more than a year or two at the most, and it is going to be harder than ever to get them to listen to their coaches even while they are. More and more, they will arrive on their own terms, and they will depart on their own terms as well. Then, once in the pros, there is simply too much money already guaranteed for most of them to work as hard as Michael...
Even though I am only 16, I am a gigantic Sinatra fan. Some people find it hard to believe that a high school student would listen to someone as "dull and old" as he. That was exactly how I felt until about a year ago, when I discovered the hip coolness that Frank and his Rat Pack buddies displayed in their heyday. When I broke up with my girlfriend a few weeks ago, I went into my room, turned out the lights and listened to In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning...for an entire night. Even with...
...vital systems still needed to be repaired. And the studied silence of President Clinton and Vice President Gore on the subject isn't making it any easier to raise the alarm. "This is not a technical problem," Koskinen says. Right. It's a people problem: getting top bureaucrats to listen...
Snuff it out already! If the threat of lung cancer and heart disease isn't reason enough, listen to this: less than a pack a day can increase your risk of hearing loss. Smoking may damage the arteries that supply blood to the inner...
...critics were never kind to Glimp. Edmund Wilson dismissed him with the scathing comment "I've read his operas, but I refuse to listen to his paintings." George Bernard Shaw admired Glimp for "the authentic ugliness he could carry from one genre to another." Such remarks never bothered him. "I don't create for the critics," Glimp said with his usual brutal whimsy. "I do it for a tiny cult of neurotic admirers who worship me obsessively and bring me offerings of fruit and incense...