Word: murmurous
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...killed five or six," says one of his men, who are a mixture of unemployed youngsters and police officers. The police are well armed and in uniform, but the youths carry only knives, slingshot darts and the occasional Glock semiautomatic pistol. Each time Mosoco shoots, the young men murmur in satisfaction. Mosoco's victims will be added to some two dozen killed in violence last week stemming from the dismissal in March of almost half the East Timorese defense force. The 591 soldiers, most of whom come from the western part of the country, had been led on strike...
John Updike once said Vladimir Nabokov wrote prose the only way it should be written: ecstatically. That's the way the Coltrane quartet plays here. The four-part suite, composed to celebrate Coltrane's spiritual triumph over drug addiction, ranges hypnotically from a meditative murmur to fierce shrieks, with Coltrane's tenor sax surging to astonishing inventiveness and intensity. The 1964 album staked out frontiers of harmony, rhythm and structure that musicians are still exploring today...
...FILMS BY LOUIS MALLE A sort of foster brother of the New Wave directors, Malle is matched only by François Truffaut as a memorializer of youth in all its enthralling achiness. This Criterion Collection package brings together (with the usual fabulous extras) three mini-masterpieces: the 1971 Murmur of the Heart, the 1974 Lacombe Lucien and the 1987 Au Revoir les Enfants (below). Sexuality, fascism and racism are the respective issues addressed, but it's the mood that sticks with you: a wise, indulgent longing that is immediately French, indelibly universal...
...even as their ranks grow, so does a murmur of frustration. Businesswomen of color speak quietly of persistent stereotypes (for example, having earned their jobs through affirmative action), of the struggle to conform to a white male culture, of feeling that their lives outside the office are invisible to bosses and colleagues. Their disgruntlement is so acute that some even talk of quitting. But for the most part, they keep their complaints from employers, who, although attuned to their minority and female constituents, remain largely in the dark about those who happen to be both. A new study written...
...tortured him in the jungle. When we found him, he was so covered in blood and cigarette burns that we could hardly recognize him. That's when I decided to run away." Mohamad's voice cracked. "We just want the killing to stop," he said, as a low murmur of assent rose from the other men in the room. "We want to go home...