Word: hums
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Harvard, though, seems to have finally caught up with its lofty preseason expectations. It’s safe to say a Crimson victory would not be surprising, never mind its ho-hum 16-14-3 record...
...orchestra, chorus and didjeridu. For nearly 60 years, this Tasmanian-born composer's music has resonated with the sacred quality of nature. The Requiem is his masterwork. Based on an old Aboriginal lullaby, Sculthorpe's soaring choral work is punctuated by weeping cellos and grounded by the majestic hum of soloist William Barton's didjeridu, suggesting the long horizon of the Outback...
...much substance on that theme—but it revealed plenty about the media’s desire to bring down the outsider from Vermont who had dared breach the establishment’s walls. “The murmurs of doubt are faint, barely audible above the background hum of the Internet cosmos, but they are worth listening to,” the article began, proceeding to quote a few Dean-doubters posting comments of dubious newsworthiness on the former governor’s public, uncensored weblog. A month later, Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., was fresh...
Living in a city, you learn to filter out background noise. There’s a constant din of cars passing, doors closing, planes passing, computers humming. We dorm dwellers are especially adept at tuning it out. Richard Yates has a great passage about the sound of the city in a story called “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired.” He writes that all the “little sounds add up and come together in a kind of hum. But it’s so faint—so very, very faint?...
...Clark's volunteers are predominately male and haven't showered in days, and many look like they're still working through their Y2K provisions. The Clark campaign also boasts the only volunteer dog, an underfed beagle named Truman. The future lobbyists are at John Kerry's headquarters, where things hum along like a '90s Internet start-up run by well-dressed New Republic readers. The sweet-natured, churchgoing college interns at the Richard Gephardt campaign are far outnumbered by the brawny volunteer ironworkers. Joe Lieberman's nerdy, beleaguered staff, which is the best-liked in town, works...