Word: murmured
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...describes it, one is hard pressed to understand what the American supporters of Israel are complaining about. If the reality on the ground is really so one-sided, it is a wonder that Jews and supporters of Israel around the world do not hide their heads in shame and murmur a silent prayer of thanks that the media are unfair in their reporting. The answer is clear. They...
...there are cheers when Soderbergh wins Best Direction. Russell Crowe's win draws mixed reactions. Some women gush with happiness. Most of the men glower. One wag at the table defends Crowe's honor as an actor, saying that Crowe's acting skills have been underrated. This produces a murmur of assent from the ladies, until the speaker adds that by this he means that Crowe had obviously fooled Meg Ryan... The defenders of The Man Who Would Be Oscar drown this remark derisively. There is no mocking allowed about Russell...
...Bush nominee Linda Chavez learned Tuesday and Clinton nominees Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood learned back in 1993, many Americans appear to feel there's something singularly distressing about a woman who's not totally in control of household events and expenditures. It's the household after all, we murmur. Shouldn't she have been spending more time at home? That way she wouldn't have had to hire illegal immigrants to do her job in the first place...
...that's not the biggest problem with Traffic. At one point Douglas' character convenes his staff and asks them to "think outside the box" about solutions to the drug problem. They don't come up with much, and neither do these filmmakers. "Oh, please," we murmur, seeing that Wakefield's daughter is hooked. "Oh, sure," we say when we learn that Milian's cruelty is corruption's mask. "What else?" we ask when a character is assassinated before he can testify against the higher-ups in his operation...
...athlete, at least a smart one, does not say publicly, "I'm gonna kill him." Such a statement, circled in red Magic Marker and tacked to a locker-room bulletin board, can be as inspirational as a Gipper speech. So this year's Olympians will murmur only the mildest bromides. But some of them, in this Grudge Report, will quietly nurse their enmity to find a focus for their few moments in the quadrennial sun. The old Olympic rule applies: Get mad; get even...