Word: hubbub
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...finally, will I descend into sentiment and list the things I’ll be sorry to leave behind—the madness and hubbub, the predictably awful yet somehow comforting social scene, my peculiar, always fascinating classmates...and above all, perhaps, the beauty of the place, and the way the red-brick grandeur along the river glows, faintly, in the slanting, failing light of a late-spring evening...
...that are easy to read. What lifts it out of that category is this simple fact: a living human being, someone clutching a tattered picture of his wife, someone who also develops a terrible need to go to the bathroom, is lying, totally immobilized, on a bomb. All the hubbub around him--all the arguments and sound bites--cannot disguise the fact that he is essentially a living dead man whose fate cannot help engaging our pity and terror...
...Thimphu, it became clearer from his conversation?the latest Hollywood releases, Prince Charles, Britney?that a quarter century after opening its borders to the outside world, Bhutan is losing some of its splendid isolation. But while satellite TV may be superseding story-telling, and Internet chat rooms replacing the hubbub of the marketplace, this Himalayan kingdom perched between Tibet and India still has no traffic lights, no Starbucks and only 7,000 tourists a year. Those on a quest for the unspoiled will find it hard to fault King Jigme Singye Wangchuck's jealous guarding of the Land...
With all the hubbub that Ulrich has inevitably sparked in traffic jams throughout the nation, can she be classified as a “well-behaved woman”? She replies mysteriously, “Depends...
Washington state residents are at it again with their creative lawn decorations. The current hubbub is over a tree carved to look like a seven-foot penis. Last year there was a similar uproar over reindeer cutouts that looked like they were getting it on. So much can happen in just...