Word: mutterings
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...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...
...Farrell 3 3 43 18 0 Wally Rutechis 1 2 39 25 1 Mark Vignali 2 1 10 10 0 Peter Ceko 3 1 8 8 0 Tackling Leaders Player Fachies Assists Total Joe Azeiby 21 12 13 Andy Nolan 18 5 21 Joe Marqelis 15 4 19 Scott Mutter 12 6 18 Interception Returns Player G No vds Lg TD Michael Degon 3 2 21 13 0 Chris Meyers 3 2 17 17 0 Kickoff Returns Player No vds TD Lg Avg Tim McGugan 6 128 0 37 213 Jim Garvey 2 22 0 14 110 Steve Ernst...
FIGHTING FOR OXYGEN in the jam-packed aisles of the Coop one fine September day, you will curse out loud at the thought of paying $22.50 for a book your professor wrote 15 years ago and still requires for his course. "Cripes," you will mutter, imagining the seedy old codger shuffling into the store that evening and emptying the day's receipts into the pockets of his coffee-stained tweed blazer...
...matures as it runs a course parallel to our actual aging. The Hindu might think that the antiself is a premonition of the soul's next life. Perhaps. But in the last moment of this life, self and antiself may coalesce. It should be their parting duet to mutter together: "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." -By Lance Morrow