Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moore's style takes some getting used to. Experimentation within the medium is the name of the game here, and the author seems to enjoy tossing out symbols for their own sake, creating linguistic tricks, and taking flat-out risks--at once point, the word "Ha!" is repeated without interruption over nearly two entire pages. But this Joycean wordplay, disconcerting at first, eventually becomes clear for what it usually is--humor. And that's where the stories get their power. On a surface level, they're a series of often depressing vignettes about dissatisfied, disillusioned adults, but underneath...
...Verdi, but it's the tenor of that voice, the whole pictureof the voice that people describe as "VerdiBaritone." The typical Baritone range in modernopera goes no higher than E. In Verdi the top isG, and a show-off note at A. The top of my rangeis B, B flat, but I stick with A for performance...
Ohlsson did well to close the programmed portion of his recital with the B-flat minor Scherzo. This playing was feverish, addictive, note-perfect and luscious at once. An especially fine cantabile reminiscent of a well-played B major nocturne (Op. 9 No. 3) and a successful barrage of blind leaps made for a triumphant exit...
...already one of the magazine's best-read pages. More than that, it was the beginning of an intractable love-hate relationship. Was Stein "the best thing to happen to TIME," or had the People page "become prisoner to his maniacal destructiveness"? Was he "wacky and fun" or "flat-out obnoxious"? Even as a sportswriter, a role he has taken up recently, Stein continues to attract both cheers ("What brilliant commentary!") and catcalls ("His report on the Yankees sent me running for the Pepto-Bismol"). To help us--and you--better understand this controversial phenom on our roster, we decided...
...Lindsey. Leno, essentially pitching comedic batting practice to Glenn, tossed a few slow, fat lobs directly over the plate, but Glenn whiffed, responding with a series of jokes--including a crack about whether his Senate colleagues would provide enough funding to bring him home--that fell more or less flat. It was left to Brown, 42 (young enough to have spent his late nights watching Carson and Leno, not Allen and Paar), to keep things moving. "Does Senator Glenn keep telling you how tough it was in the old days?" Leno asked...