Word: basses
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...America. Growing economic polarization, she argues, has made the professional class, which is inherently insecure, more smug and selfish. Much of her evidence involves incidental, sometimes lighthearted perceptions about how this uneasiness reveals itself. To escape association with a shrinking middle class, yuppies have learned to choose the baby bass en croute over the chef's salad, Italian knit sweaters over flannel shirts, running over basketball and handcrafted cabinets over mass-produced maple...
George Bush's helicopter lifted high in Washington's 86 degrees winter heat last Wednesday and churned down the Potomac River valley as the President studied the water for signs of bass running in the shallows. Within minutes he was at his destination, the Potomac Electric Power Co.'s Chalk Point generating station, a plant that produces electricity for the White House. Under Bush's proposed clean-air program, the facility would have to cut half its sulfur dioxide emissions within ten years, a $400 million undertaking. "Megabucks," acknowledged Bush. "But I am determined to clean...
...assault on Baltimore in 1814, as difficult to memorize, warmongering, and insulting to America's staunchest ally. They also claim that the music is derived from a drinking song popularized at London's Crown and Anchor Tavern. The tune's highs and lows are, well, too high and low. Bass-baritone George London contends the Banner is "impossible to sing if you're sober." Opera singers have the best chance to cover the octave plus a fifth. But the soprano who starts a half-note too high will shatter glass and her hopes of auditioning...
...have had some particularly inconsiderate neighbors. They would blast music at the most inopportune times. For example, I have been awakened to George Michael belting out, "I had a hard day, such a hard day..." at 8 a.m. on Monday morning; I have also been disturbed by a thumping bass line preceded by Tone Loc declaring "Let's do it" on Wednesday morning at 2:30 a.m. during reading period...
...Firlings 0-4 0-0 0; Elaine Harper 1-3 0-0 2; Margaret Fuchs 2-7 3-4 7; Jinny Gill 3-6 0-0 6; Karla Marquis 0-0 3-4 3; Carol Ryan 0-3 0-0 0; Heather Dietz 0-0 1-2 1; Pamela Bass 1-1 0-0 2; Marcia Brown 4-8 10-12 18; Maia Baker...