Word: thrums
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...Sing heartfelt farewells to Israel "Cachao" Lopez, 89, the Cuban-born pioneer of mambo music; to classic one-hit wonder Jody Reynolds, 75, whose Endless Sleep had a suicide theme and haunting guitar thrum; to Eddy Arnold, 89, country music's chart-topping "Tennessee Plowboy" whose early career was managed by Elvis' Svengali, Col. Tom Parker; to Jerry Reed, 71, the Nashville session guitarist with the foolin'-around grin, who became a country star with When You're Hot, You're Hot, and played Burt Reynolds' rowdy pal in Gator and Smokey and the Bandit; and to Larry Levine, indispensible...
...devastation; pain for the suffering of the living and those who died; fear as the buildings still standing were rattled by repeated aftershocks; even the guilty relief that I wasn't out there searching for my family among the muddy ruins. But beneath all that there was a steady thrum of outrage: Why, of all people on the planet, was it the Acehnese who had been hit by this calamity? It seemed so unfair. For 30 years and more, they had been caught between the Indonesian armed forces and secessionist rebels, and had suffered a living hell of rape, torture...
...gently paced melodrama, its charming humor, its caricatures, its cars, its countryside and its cityscape, fairly overflows with American iconography. Ideally, it should be taken out on a back screen porch on a warm afternoon, with a glass of cool lemonade and an old Western Electric circulating fan to thrum back and forth. But even without these accouterments, you will be swept away to another, bygone world...
...French fans sat in shock, the Senegalese crowd - many of whom were, in truth, surrogate Senegalese, Koreans wearing the yellow jerseys of the African team - bounced to the beat of Ablaye Thiam's drum. As the minutes wore down and the French still couldn't produce an equalizer, the thrum grew ever louder. "I am the heart of our team," said Thiam, pounding the instrument with a leather mallet. "Boom-boom. Boom-boom. Can you hear it? My heart is so happy today...
...surprise. The market may get a marginal boost from the nice warm feeling of a Washington stimulus package - word of a brewing deal Tuesday morning helped the pre-Fed trading - but Wall Street's winter will be determined by fourth-quarter-earnings pre-announcements and the daily thrum of economics reports that will have to reach a good-news consensus soon if the rally is going to avoid a major breather...