Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike politics, Shapiro says, covering baseball "teaches you the greatest gift for a writer or reporter: humility." While on his spring-training rounds, he found himself at a St. Petersburg, Florida, game, seated with 20 scouts. "I could hear them murmur about things I didn't see and whisper things I didn't understand." Shapiro believes that politicians would benefit from a similar immersion in humility: "It might be a wonderfully leveling experience for the egos of political leaders if for one campaign season they, like ballplayers, allowed reporters to interview them while they were half- undressed...
...parking lot when four guys with clipboards dash toward him through the traffic. What would Dirty Harry do? Never mind. Clint Eastwood is not Dirty Harry. He stops, signs a few autographs and produces his patented tight-lipped smile as his supplicants bob their heads and murmur profuse thanks...
...Jewett--more than two years after students angrily denounced his insensitivity--seems to have quietly disposed of a hot issue in the clammy bureaucracy of the College administration. Not only has he successfully pushed the definition he wanted, but he has done so with barely a murmur of resistance. The issue goes out not with a bang but a whimper...
...TALKIN' TO YOU, NIGGER," A voice hisses as the visitor walks through the gloomy passageway. "Faggot," taunts another. With every step comes a whispered insult, a mean murmur: "Loudmouthed kike! Lousy gook! Dumb Polack! Camel jockey! Red-neck bastard! Sexist pig! Goddam beaner! Get whitey!" A wolf whistle rings out and a leering voice calls, "Hey, baby." And with every message of hate, the feeling of alarm grows. "What you gonna do about...
...between the two men suggested by the text is missing, as is a sense of development in their friendship, so that the older poet seems unaffected by Bysshe's drowning at the end. Rigby choses to deliver Byron's final lines over his friend's body in a defeated murmur instead of in the desperate shout called for by the script. Although this interpretation is consistent with his overall performance, it mutes the power of the scene...