Word: murmures
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Poem to the Book Review at TIME: You will keep hiring picadors from the back row and pic the bull back far back along his spine you will slam sandbags to the kidneys and pass a wine poisoned on the vine you will saw the horns off and murmur the bulls are ah the bulls are not what once they were The corrida will end with Russians in the plaza Swine, some of you will say what did we wrong? And go forth to kiss the conquerors NORMAN MAILER New York City
...that it would not be for long. Last November, when nobody was looking, he shifted Bowles into a high-sounding but peripheral job as a presidential adviser, tossed in nearly a dozen other White House and State Department switches for good measure - and managed it all with hardly a murmur of complaint from anyone...
...Bird" Is Free (Charlie Parker; Charlie Parker Records). Saxophonist Parker was recorded at a concert dance in 1950, and despite the background murmur, he comes through warm and clear. His eloquent solos-particularly in This Time the Dream's on Me and in his own Moose the Mooche-have withered...
...Roberto would hold the same stone and would murmur, 'Mmmmm. What is this good for?' But he wouldn't know the answer...
...16th century French composer who pushed musical description to a new high-or low. Stereo fans will be fascinated by two pieces in particular: Le Chant des Oiseaux, in which the chorus twitters and coos, and La Guerre, in which the chorus, without lifting its collective voice beyond a murmur, suggests the confused clamor of the battlefield...