Word: murmured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grishin announced that the keynote speech at the Lenin celebrations would be made by KGB Chief Yuri Andropov. There was another murmur of surprise. The selection of Andropov, 67, to deliver the speech was a sign that he had risen in the Politburo hierarchy and might now be in line for Brezhnev's job when the party chief dies or retires...
...tension in the hall was palpable. The door opened. A murmur raced through the vast theater: "He's there!" And he was, emerging behind Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin, 67, who as chairman of the ceremonies was first out the door. Brezhnev walked stiffly across the stage, only a bit more slowly than before his disappearance. Many in the audience were smiling now that the mystery that had gripped the country was happily resolved. As applause mounted, Brezhnev applauded back in a display of mutual appreciation of his powers of survival...
Louis Malle, who has a deserved reputation for taking on dangerous projects (Pretty Baby, Murmur of the Heart), was obviously attracted to the challenge of doing what amounts to an antimovie, static and minimalist. He has functioned, it seems, pretty much in the manner of a good TV technician handling a Sunday-morning inter view show. His work is smooth, objective, unobtrusive. His manner certainly suits a script that was distilled from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between its author-protagonists...
...pity or jingo or other illusions. It would mitigate an injustice and might even improve the nation's collective mental health. It would help to settle America's tedious quarrel with itself. Americans should be able to repeat Robert Lowell's line in a calm inward murmur: "My eyes have seen what my hand...
Slayton, selected as one of the original seven astronauts for the Mercury program in 1959 but forced by a heart murmur to wait until he commanded the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, was asked if he still hoped of returning. "Hell, yes, I wouldn't be here if I didn't," he replied...