Word: murmurings
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Sure did, while the ramble lasted. Then the national enthusiasm for folk music faded to its customary polite murmur. Rush was still fairly successful, but that was fairly disastrous in the platinum-or-bust pop-music world. Punk was big; should he dye his hair purple and wear Spandex? Or mess around with country rock? A couple of years before, he had bought a shaggy, overgrown 600-acre farm in the southern part of New Hampshire, his home state. He had a good view of Mount Monadnock and enough money to hide out for a year. As the fat years...
...galleries' usual murmur of quiet commentary hushed to tense whispers. The gaggle of interns in the corner "ladies' gallery" asked each other "What's the score?" "Was that number 30 or 31?" Meanwhile, on the New York State Thruway, a bridge waited to collapse...
...country, it seems, is awash with drugs. Fine white powder pours past the border patrol like sand through a sieve. On busy street corners and in urban parks, pushers murmur, "Crack it up, crack it up," like some kind of evil incantation, bewitching susceptible kids and threatening society's sense of order and security. The public is outraged; opinion polls show that drug abuse has surpassed economic woes and the threat of real war as the nation's No. 1 concern. For a nation whose penchant for righteous crusades can surpass even its tolerance for libertine individualism, the crackdown against...
...Crack it up, crack it up," the drug dealers murmur from the leafy parks of the suburbs to New York City's meanest streets. The pushers are highly visible and undiscriminating. Three weeks ago, New York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato and Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, both in disguise, had no trouble purchasing vials of crack from peddlers in the city's Washington Heights section. Many New York law-enforcement authorities believe that a substantial increase in crime this year might be attributed to the crack epidemic. In May of this year cocaine arrests were...
...courts far from Wimbledon or Flushing, where on summer mornings teenagers meet to work on their strokes and serves. They dress in fashionable warm-up outfits or immaculate whites adorned with well-known logos and swing imported Volkl, Kneissel or Belgian "Snauwaert" carbon racquets. Hovering nearby, track-suited trainers murmur advice. The days are a regimen of practice matches, endurance training and chalkboard strategy sessions, followed by evening shape-ups with sports psychologists...