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...life could be simple again. My craving for escape found me on the deck of Engel's Marco Polo, a single-masted wooden schooner, for a four-day cruise. It was the middle of the night, and the Marco Polo cruised along at a steady seven knots, the low hum of its engine blending with the soft slap of waves against the hull. Engel watched the dim, forested hills of Sulawesi slip behind us and into the night. "Untouched," he said. "Nobody knows about these places...
Anthony is one of those rare singers whose heavy smoking has enhanced his gifts. His voice, for all its range and power, has an unmistakable roughness that keeps it from sounding cold and technical. The lyrics on this album are rife with ho-hum avowals of loyalty in the Elvis vein: on I've Got You, Anthony gushes, "Baby, it's the way you love me/ That makes me so damn sure that you're the one." When Latin pop is this slick, Newport Light-stained imperfection is a welcome relief. --By Benjamin Nugent
...only to pretend that this may be a "controversial" movie, worrisome to a jittery America. Can we live with its doomsday scenario? Of course we can. And hum a few bars of "Seems Like Old Times" while we're at it. There are murkier, scarier matters to bring to light - intelligently, we may hope and pray...
...loud hum, explains Director of Energy and Utilities Doug Garron, is the sound of Harvard in full swing—thousands of people using computers, taking showers and turning on lights—sometimes wastefully...
Sure, I’ve had my share of awkward academic encounters. I taught a Monday section that was almost entirely mute except for the occasional sound of my voice, the dull hum of an electric clock, the gentle heave of someone’s hungover breathing and the faint notes of Led Zeppelin emanating from one student’s set of badly hidden headphones...