Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have had much better model female consorts to follow. Take, for instance, Princess Alexandra of Denmark. A Eurasian former economist, she works hard to improve Danish trade. Or Crown Princess Masako of Japan '85, who was able to adapt herself to a most private and ancient family without a murmur. Look at Queen Noor of Jordan. As an American woman, she had been one of the first co-eds at Princeton, studying architecture. She was an anti-Vietnam activist. Then, at 25 she married a king, inheriting eight stepchildren and later having four children...
...Another early arrival, a Portuguese cleaning woman, told TIME that "Diana's head and bust were leaning on the window. She was moaning very loudly, saying, 'Aye! Aye! Aye!' Her cries reverberated through the tunnel." The princess tried to speak and was once heard to murmur, "My God." But no direct witness reports her saying anything coherent. The first two policemen on the scene found her semiconscious. One of them tried to keep her awake by "talking to her and tapping on her cheek...
MISSING THE BEAT Though stethoscopes offer an easy way to identify heart abnormalities, young doctors don't always know how to use them. In a study, residents failed to tell a murmur from a normal beat 80% of the time...
...secret of John Cassavetes' films was that they relied on Hollywood star quality. His lupine smile sent out laser beams of frantic menace, and Gena Rowlands had (still has) a face the camera can't stop watching. When she shows up in She's So Lovely to hear Penn murmur, "You're a very beautiful woman, and I haven't been around the kindness of women in some time," it's a sweet tribute from this generation of Method mesmerizers to the one who taught them...
...hard to imagine Stewart's innocence as dangerous. The magic moments I treasure most are when his throaty hesitations are melted in a murmur of tenderness--the defensive and rigid store clerk of The Shop Around the Corner confessing his love for Margaret Sullavan, the small-time banker whispering "Mary" over and over while Donna Reed is on the telephone with another...