Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blues was successfully marketed to white audiences without the aid of Belushi-esque theatrics. But in addition to capitalizing on its initial novelty as roots rock n' roll, it was flying on wings of social activism and psychedelic drugs. Liberal white people could listen to the blues and feel they were understanding Black culture, even after the centers of Black music had moved to Soul and Motown...
Defining folk music as anything folks will listen to is too broad for Rush and Maple Hill, and confining it to Elizabethan ballads played on dulcimers is way too narrow. Most of the artists associated with Rush and Maple Hill play acoustic instruments, though Rush's keyboardist, Irwin Fisch, for instance, played a Baldwin grand rigged out with a synthesizer at Symphony Hall. Bill Morrissey is a quirky, funny New Hampshireman who sometimes performs with Rush, singing made-by-hand songs about how he should be working the second shift at the shoe factory, except that here...
...Listen before you leap. Senator Joseph Montoya provided comic relief during Watergate by dutifully reciting the questions his staff had prepared, even if other Senators had already asked them. Always remember to ear on the side of caution...
...hold up. "All the interviews have been conducted in full compliance with the subjects' rights," said Pentagon Spokesman Robert Sims last week. "I know of no reason to believe that any subject was coerced or badgered in any way." Military officials seem unfazed by the retractions. A judge will listen to tapes of the statements and rule on their validity. The account by Williams, says one source, is "extremely detailed . . . far more than imagination...
...matter of truth. In Lyons, Barbie will have to answer not for his war crimes but for his crimes against humanity. For these there is no statute of limitations. He will have to explain, for example, why he condemned the Jewish children of Izieu. Listen to the words of one of those children, eleven-year-old Liliane Gerenstein, in a letter scrawled to God before she was taken on the road that led to the gas chambers: "It is thanks to You that I enjoyed a wonderful life before, that I was spoiled, that I had lovely things, things that...