Word: hums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...encased in fencing and scaffolding. I can't get near the steps where I used to sit and people-watch in the Yard. I can barely see the forbidden fire escape where I studied illegally in the warm spring weather. I can only stand below, listen to the hum of the drills and imagine the dramatic changes in my once-familiar room...
Confounding all predictions of a ho-hum summit, Boris Yeltsin swept into Washington like the virtuoso politician he is, surprising and exciting the blase capital. Russia's first democratically elected President quickly disposed of the lingering distractions of strategic-arms control and turned his attention to what matters most to him: trade and aid for Russia...
This cross-casting is intended to criticize race and gender stereotypes in contrast to Hum's prejudices. But in a genre that depends on the substitution of archetypes for complex characters, this attack seems singularly out of place...
...play breaks its one-dimensional approach at one point in the second act, when Senator Ham talks to the phosphorescent woman. Hum does have compassion for one group--the people of his poor state--and his greed and ruthlessness are partly based on a fear that he will be poor again someday. Money for farmers is more important to him than money for Eastern liberal artists who despise him for his Southern, lower-class roots...
...feeds the soul, not the body," the phosphorescent woman says. Hum counters, "You try telling that to a man eating mush...