Word: murmuring
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...gray wall with a mauve undercast. The table occupies a little over two-thirds of the depth of the painting, the wall the rest, and the corpse is huddled not quite in the center of the table. These slight departures from absolute regularity give the centered, single image a murmur, no more, of instability. The scheme is one of the most widely known in Spanish painting: the tradition of the bodegon, or kitchen still life, the isolated object against a plain field, brought to its fullest intensity by Zurbaran and Sanchez Cotan in the early 17th century. Echoes...
...Thursday--Commencement speaker Winnie Mandela tells an audience of 30,000 that the United States must wake up to reality and stop coddling corporate pseudo-moralists. "You mean there are actually Black South Africans who want divestment?" one Harvard Corporation member is heard to murmur in astonishment. Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 says, "I think the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility will be reconsidering its position shortly...
...before a Cactus League game with Milwaukee, outfielders are sprinting, base runners are drilling, and pitchers are covering first on bunts. Even a character as unromantic as the Cubs' 6-ft. 5-in. general manager, Dallas Green, the last baseball executive still executing on physical fear, is moved to murmur, "They're ready." He is referring to the fans, not the players. "They want to see people shag fly balls." They want to stop and smell the neat's-foot...
...troubled, divided soul that French Director Louis Malle (The Lovers, Murmur of the Heart) uncovers in Alamo Bay. The script is based on a conflict that exploded in the late '70s on the Texas Gulf Coast. In the film town of Port Alamo, "Anglo" shrimp fishermen battle the current, the depressed prices and the influx of Vietnamese refugees plying an old trade in a new land. Shang (Ed Harris) is one such rowdy all-American, working his ancestral fishing grounds and feeling threatened by the Asians he fought to defend a world and a war ago. Dinh (Ho Nguyen...
...played only 14 years, I thought, 'Hey, I've played seven already.' Maybe I am halfway through." The first time he and Lafleur ever faced off, it seemed the puck would never drop, and under the tension of the wait, below the clamor of the crowd, he heard Lafleur murmur, "How's it going, Gretz?" Without planning to, Gretzky found himself saying the same thing this year to Star Rookie Mario Lemieux. "How's it going, Mario...