Word: murmured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning seminars in the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, panelists mulled over such perennial problems as censorship and whether fiction will survive. The murmur of opinions was regularly punctuated by that strange modern cacophony, the sudden chorus of digital wristwatch alarms. From the audience, Helen McDonald (The Life and Times of Tondaleah Rosponowitz) asked, "Why are all these authors here? Is Key West the Paris of the '20s, the Tangier of the '60s?" Residents Thomas Sanchez (Rabbit Boss) and Philip Caputo (DelCorso's Gallery), who had been soberly addressing the topic "War and Peace hi the American...
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to media, Bok, Watt, the corporation and the Faculty Council meet in secret session. While welcoming a group of dignitaries to the Yard, Bok is heard to murmur, "And you think you're just sightseeing. Well, ignorance is bliss...
There was barely a murmur of forebod- among the 200 employees of the Louis Globe-Democrat when they were summoned to the paper's seedy fifth-floor conference room. One reporter had signed a $70,000 mortgage note on his way to work; some colleagues speculated mat the meeting would concern a charity drive Seemingly, no one was prepared tor the announcement from Publisher O. Duncan Bauman: "The Globe-Democrat will print its final edition Dec 31 ending 131 years of daily publication...
...place in movie history. With My Last Sigh, Buñuel allows himself to be seen in another light: as that most engaging of con artists, the raconteur. Reading the memoir is like spending a long, lazy afternoon in his presence. His voice never rises above a murmur. A small smile engages his face as he recalls some long-ago provocation that today scandalizes no one. Now and then he dozes. On one such afternoon this summer, Buñuel nodded off into immortality...
...good rhythm for us," he says. "We're not going to let anybody push us until we're ready to jump." His new campaign treasurer says pledges are coming in. In the meantime, many of Jackson's potential supporters are beginning to murmur, "When, Jesse, when...