Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise. Last week, as Congress raced to adjourn before the Thanksgiving holiday, it sent the President a final 1990 budget bill lopping $14.7 billion off the deficit -- thanks, of course, to gimmicks and a $5.6 billion increase in what people outside the Washington Beltway usually call taxes. Without a murmur of protest or the slightest hint of a blush, Bush agreed to sign the measure into...
...together that the waiters can hardly squeeze between, and patrons find themselves knocking knees with their dinner companions. No matter. They have come from around the world -- Japan, Italy, France, Scandinavia, South America -- to savor this moment. The random babel of a hundred conversations suddenly turns into an excited murmur as a sandy-haired man in an open-necked white shirt and corduroy trousers saunters in and heads for an empty table. He nonchalantly opens a tattered case and removes, then hooks together, the sections of an antique clarinet. Peering through his familiar black-rimmed glasses, he hops up onto...
...platinum ZIP codes of Holmby Hills, Bel Air and Beverly Hills, the noise of wretched excess is everywhere. "Teardowns" are transforming the shape of some of the most voluptuous real estate in the U.S. Down tree-lined boulevards, the murmur of nannies cooing into baby carriages and gardeners snipping the gardenias is drowned out by earthmoving, sawing, hammering, and the cursing of drivers trying to park beside a line of lunch wagons, cement mixers and Porta Pottis. To date, hundreds of older homes in the area have been destroyed for the simple reason that the original "dungalows" were worth...
...really is better in the Bahamas," you murmur to yourself...
...Election night, 1988. In a darkened Madison Square Garden, a murmur of anticipation ripples through the standing-room-only crowd. On the floor below, the guest of honor stands, head bent, a bit overwhelmed and maybe a bit embarrassed by the spectacle. "Ladies and gentlemen," booms a voice as the spotlight rakes the now cheering audience, "No. 23, Miiichaaael Jooordaaan!" As one, the 19,591 men, women and children rise to pay thunderous tribute...