Word: hummed
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...Waiting for the 7.18,” mimics the pace of the first with another slow-paced intro—accented by glockenspiel and Okereke—leading into an epic chorus. “The Prayer” opens with a steady, stomp beat over a low, Gregorian hum, and showcases electronic ambience and Okereke’s playfully arrogant lyrics. This interesting blend of sounds is, strangely enough, the album’s first single. “Uniform” and “On” are reminiscent of the ballads on “Silent...
...dedication (“To the fans that held us down / Til errrbody came areeeownd”), the album already smacks of laziness. This apathy gets worse when the group steals Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” for the ingeniously titled “Hum Hallelujah,” or lifts the choral melody from the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” for the track “You’re Crashing, but You’re No Wave...
...brain) and the thalamus (the cluster of hubs at the center that serve as input-output relay stations). Large, slow, regular waves signal a coma, anesthesia or a dreamless sleep; smaller, faster, spikier ones correspond to being awake and alert. These waves are not like the useless hum from a noisy appliance but may allow consciousness to do its job in the brain. They may bind the activity in far-flung regions (one for color, another for shape, a third for motion) into a coherent conscious experience, a bit like radio transmitters and receivers tuned to the same frequency. Sure...
...Others remember fondly the days when campus activism was not the ho-hum spectacle of modern times, when a takeover of University Hall might be incautiously reciprocated with tear gas rather than an offer to talk things over...
...Cremaldi’s customer base, won over, no doubt, by the smiley staff and best damn pie around. Petsi pie is the only pie around, as far as I am concerned. I went first on a Thursday afternoon and found it suffused with the genial hum of satisfied customers. Think the coziness of Darwin’s with a bit of the mismatched, worn-in charm of Charlie’s Kitchen, but without the seating problems of either. People came and went at a pretty steady pace the whole time my friend and I were there...