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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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 »

...since 3 a.m. In the past two hours alone, his assistant tells him, he has received 47 phone messages. A secretary calls security to find out if the building needs to be evacuated. But Villaraigosa, 52, once described by a fellow Democrat as having as much energy as "a hummingbird in flight," is busy taking another call, that one from Frank McCourt, the owner of the Dodgers, who congratulates the mayor-elect and reminds him that there are seats set aside for any game he chooses to attend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charming the Angels | 5/24/2005 | See Source »

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