Word: humming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such a timepiece would be virtually useless today: computers, communications satellites, global-positioning receivers and telephone-switching systems need a precision beyond anything conceivable even 50 years ago. Time technology long since abandoned mechanical devices and even the hum of quartz crystals. For true precision--accuracy to a billionth of a second--you need to travel, virtually at least, to a place like the perfectly circular, well-guarded park that sits in northwest Washington. There, on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory, a nondescript concrete building houses the nerve center of the U.S. Directorate of Time...
...figure...A Memphis jury rules that there was a widespread conspiracy to murder Martin Luther King Jr., and the nation responds with a resounding ho-hum. Despite America's love affair with conspiracy theories, the trial was notable in its media absence. Court TV televised the opening days, then skipped town, and civil rights leaders, including Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson (who was at the assassination), have been quiet on the ruling. Even conspiracy-lover Oliver Stone allowed his option on the film rights to the murder expire. Of course, a trial that was based on defendant Loyd Jowers...
...hum of a vacuum cleaner lulls babies to sleep, a professor lecturing from a podium causes college students to drool with dreams. There's something about listening to the monotone of an educated person saying important things for an important test that makes them think it's nap time...
...have done the likeness of a few people for their funerals," he says loudly, trying to drown out the hum of the freezer's fans. "We'll do really anything the customer wants...
...portrait of Elvis, gun drawn, off register, multiplied by four like a drunken vision. He stares you down, that famously curling lip, with all the swagger and pow of Pop's sardonic message: how a world of glossy goods and superstars is way more gripping than the prayerful hum of our inner lives...