Word: whispers
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...credits came on the screen and the beautiful jazz music Harlem is so famous for began to play, I heard a critic next to me whisper to his companion, "This is going to be "New Jack City Two."" While I have not seen "New Jack City," the original, I can see why my neighbor would say this. The subject matter, I have been told, is the same: the horror and entrapment of the drug trade. This would make sense since both "New Jack City" and "Sugar Hill" were written by Barry Michael Cooper. "Sugar Hill" merely makes it a cliche...
...students aren't buying it. "No, it's not the kiss of death, but it's a peck-on-the-check of death. Sort of a whisper in your ear," Lump observes wryly. "The whole idea that a B+ is a 'great grade'--that's so bogus... That's just laughable. An A is a 'great grade.' The B+, that's a way that [graders] can flex and seem kind of tough...
...Robert Olen Butler comes into this long, claustrophobic novel of erotic obsession with a powerful charge of literary momentum, including a Pulitzer Prize last year for a fine short story collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. He's still on his feet at the end of They Whisper (Holt; 333 pages; $22.50), but he's moving slowly, like a man who has just bushwhacked through 20 miles of tidal marsh and who needs a hot shower and breakfast. Guessing how this valiant effort will be received is chancy. Is a reader close enough to the hero's fleshy...
...they trek to the Science Center basement, or if they're lucky, to a roommate's machine. As homework gets neglected for passionate late-night electronic trysts, these '90s lovers whisper sweet nothings--by means of a keyboard...
...your cabdriver to wait until he starts getting embarrassed, and then you finally leave, wistfully reciting poems by an old Harvard student who had a girlfriend in Worcester--e.e. cummings. As you head back to Satan's country (the greater Boston area) you hear your date whisper, "This was a great date, honey. I love Worcester." Yes, Worcester is wicked awesome...