Word: hummingbird
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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...
...then I saw the director of the shoot waving his arms like a hummingbird, panicking. The trance was over...
...middle of ad-libbing a question about a set of songs recorded exclusively for Beck’s website, I see Ted’s hummingbird arms...
...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...
...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...