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Brussels is a boring place to study art. It is boring in general. Each night tourists assemble in the Grand Place to watch a light show projected onto the magnificent 15th-century buildings that once housed the craft and trade guilds, as a sound track hums from loud speakers.

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: A Portrait of the Art Student | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

But the less versatile Remy, who plays second base or nowhere, hums a different tune. "I'm not going to accept the situation that happened last year, when I played two games in 12 days. If that's how they're going to use me. I'd be more valuable...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Red Sox Prospects: Finding Room for Remy and Stapleton | 3/11/1981 | See Source »

On the other hand, Rushen has a unique and vital quality of softness not often found in her jazz contemporaries. Her voice tingles, hums and vibrates on combination of Minnie Ripperton and notes from high to low, sounding like a Denice Williams. With the exception of occasionally explosive tracks, the...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Two New Super Vocals | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

One reason is that Mr. Mim is sensitive and a little ambivalent about his SQ. He knows with the intuitive self-consciousness of the upwardly mobile that occupation, education, ethnic background and the concepts of social identity and life-style also count. Of course money talks. Indeed it whistles, hums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reflections in a Gilded Eye | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

By then astronomers had turned their wartime technology to the peaceful pursuit of stargazing. Rockets equipped with X-ray detectors roared off the pad. Soaring high above the atmosphere, which prevents celestial X rays from reaching the earth, they enabled astronomers to begin charting X-ray sources in the heavens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Those Baffling Black Holes | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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