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...What's the story, morning glory? / What's the word, hummingbird?" That was Broadway teen talk back in the early '60s, when the high school kids in Bye Bye Birdie gossiped about their friends in a game of telephone tag. More than 40 years later, another band of gossipy girls is peeking out of another set of windows on a Broadway stage. How far have we advanced? Well, the kids are in a college sorority now, and the squeals of excitement--and the title of the opening song--have evolved into dumbed-down Valley-speak: Omigod You Guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legally Blonde and Broadway's Girl Appeal | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...then I saw the director of the shoot waving his arms like a hummingbird, panicking. The trance was over...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Screwing Up My Shot With Beck | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...middle of ad-libbing a question about a set of songs recorded exclusively for Beck’s website, I see Ted’s hummingbird arms...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Screwing Up My Shot With Beck | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...rate fueling stops have become a seasonal draw; bedandbreakfast.com and bbonline.com list fall gas promotions and reduced rates, such as 20% "gas relief" discounts or gas cards at inns nationwide. You can earn a gallon of gas for every bag of leaves collected from the lawn at the Hummingbird Inn in Goshen, Va. (up to a five-bag limit). The Kingsley House Bed & Breakfast in Fennville, Mich., is offering 2 gal. of gas (6 gal. maximum) for every gallon of apple cider or half bushel of apples you purchase at nearby Crane's apple orchards and Pie Pantry restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Turning Over a New Leaf | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...show, watched nightly by about 50% of Iraqi TV viewers, isn't flashy, with spartan sets and no studio audience. But it does have Simon Cowell's Iraqi alter ego, Muhammad Hadi, whose slams have a local accent. His dis of one hopeful's off-key song about a hummingbird: "Slaughtered bird is masculine. You kept saying it is feminine." BILAL, playing an oud, had no such trials. In a performance dedicated to his country, the 12-year-old from Mosul made the judges cry and himself a favorite, singing Ya Iraq!, about the suffering of Iraqi children. The music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Wants to be an Iraqi Star? | 8/28/2005 | See Source »

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