Word: mutterings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time specifically to see the Adams House Z K-School fellow Burford picks the same weekend to move to Cambridge for the year, and happens to drive past the festivities on the riverbank. "And I thought I had a cleanup problem," the former federal administrator is heard to mutter...
...daughter of the local Gentile whore. But if she is spared deportation as a Jew, she is execrated as one of the devil's brood. "The peasants drove her mercilessly. She cleaned the cow shed ... brought firewood from the forest. At night the peasant's wife would mutter: 'You know who your mother is. You must pay for your sins. Your mother has corrupted whole villages.' " Wherever Tzili goes the peasants beat her with sticks and ropes...
...funny on purpose. When shooting her way out of the Afghan camp, for instance, Eve is stopped by the young prince who loves her. She levels her gun at him, but he stands firm and opens his shirt, exposing his chest as a target. All Eve can do is mutter "Men" and run off. Robert Morley as the deranged businessman Bentik also keeps the movie from taking itself too seriously, camping up his malice and insulting his manservant. And the 12-year-old in all of us giggles at serial stunts and big battles from which the heroes emerge safely...
...conductor, to weld a hundred men into one singing giant, to build up the most gorgeous arabesques of sound, to wave a hand and make the clamoring strings sink to a mutter, to wave again, and hear the brass crashing out in triumph, to throw up a finger, then another and another, and to know that with every one the orchestra would bound forward into a still more ecstatic surge and sweep, to fling oneself forward, and for a moment or so keep everything still, frozen, in the hollow of one's hand, and then to set them...
...Concorde jet taking off next door? Not jangling enough. The only suitable comparison is with the one thing some of us has ever experienced. The day Ronnie drops the bomb and civil defense alarms go off across the country. Lowellians are going to roll over in the sack, mutter, "just another goddamn alarm," pull their pillows over their ears and hold their bedmates extra close. Then again, that's probably the best...