Word: muttering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...risen to 11 million. Not since the Second World War had U.S. ballet known so bright a moment of glory. At that time Dance Critic Edwin Denby attributed the public's eagerness for dance to ballet's "civilized and peaceful excitement." Psychologists now mutter about correlations between dance movement and the human pulse. Whatever the explanation, Americans apparently cannot get enough of dance...
Having been abroad in space for 20 years, the explorers aboard the ship Dark Star are off their respective nuts. They mutter to one another, yell at the talking computer, spend hours-even days-gazing out of the ship's bubble-top lookout post, swacked on the enormousness of the universe...
...past. Now some of these idealistic employees are disillusioned. At the same time, CIA agents in Western Europe are worried that they can no longer count on headquarters to protect them. As a result, they are reluctant to mount any risky or out-of-the-ordinary operations and mutter darkly that the CIA debate only encourages the Soviet Union's KGB to step up efforts to penetrate Western defenses...
...restrict the theoretically unfettered press by refusing to publish anything not to their liking-can use the sex explosion as evidence that censorship does not exist. Another is that the people obviously like it. Says one kiosk operator in Lisbon's Restauradores Square: "A few passers-by sometimes mutter, but we are making a lot of money from erotic magazines...
...embarrassed. Her card says simply that "she was taken to Boston Commons," a scrap of information of dubious significance, but you can think on it while you look. A shrewd glance reveals the wrinkles pleated into a brown paper sack which might have given harried passersby the chance to mutter "the old bag" as they bustled through the park...