Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the glossy surface of Indiana's prose, small but powerfully political quips often burst forth. However, these moments do little to sustain the overall ho-hum drama which is meant to propel the novel. It reads as if a Dynasty script meets "Miami Vice" in Colombia followed by the same Dynasty script meeting. "The Living End" in Germany. And this is all retold, often second-hand, by a not so reliable narrator in New York sometime later. Oh, and a serial killer lurks about the pages. This allusion seems so cliche it's forgettable, but so irritatingly contrived that...
Representatives from the Crimson proved that undeniably this weekend at the national individual championships at Trinity and Navy. Juniors Vanya Desai and Adrian Ezra captured their respective crowns as expected. Their victories which seem so ho-hum in black and white are rather amazing. Desai and Ezra are the two best collegiate squash players in the country, and which is more, they both live in the same house at Harvard...
...hum started two years ago. Only some folks in Taos, New Mexico, could hear it. Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Residents began to lose sleep, suffer headaches. Mmmmmmmm. The residents called upon their U.S. Representative, BILL RICHARDSON, to look into the mysterious vibration. His investigation, which is continuing, has uncovered three U.S. Air Force projects that could be behind the noise: a structure used to bounce radar waves, a low-flying airborne laser laboratory, and helicopters. Recently, Richardson wrote Defense Secretary Les Aspin asking him to "make the necessary changes" to end the problem...
Complexity theorists believe more sophisticated phenomena follow the same pattern. The stock market can, without outside direction, hum along on an upward course for years and then crash 500 points in a single day. A species can survive for millions of years and then abruptly die out -- or conversely, evolve almost all at once into something entirely new. And self-reproducing organisms can somehow arise, against all odds, from a soup of simple organic chemicals...
...urban poor to better their lives. In Bombay, high school girls learn about sanitation, nutrition and immunization so that they can pass on this information to illiterate neighbors. In Bangkok a program called Magic Eyes has reduced street trash by 85% through the gentle method of encouraging children to hum a jingle about sloppiness when they see their parents litter. In Mexico City cash-starved peasants band together to form cooperatives that guarantee credit for people who might otherwise never be able to afford a home...