Word: fussed
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...hand, is rough and hard charging in these readings from 1949 and 1951. Once, Toscanini's Beethoven was Beethoven, as surely handed down from on high as Schnabel's. Today, Toscanini's interpretations sound merely coarse, the vaunted NBC Symphony distinctly second-rate. What, one wonders, was all the fuss about? Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 (''Eroica'') and 8. Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon). Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. Soprano Carol Vaness, Mezzo Janice Taylor, Tenor Siegfried Jerusalem, Bass Robert Lloyd; Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (Telarc). Every decade Karajan tackles the Beethoven...
...bewilderment that's bewildering. Speculation abounds that the White House pressured the Germans to deny Obama his made-for-cable-TV moment. So far not a shred of evidence has surfaced, but the whole affair led at least one German commentator to call on Obama to "put all this fuss to an end," have a quick tea with Merkel, pose for some pictures and get out of town...
...trace of validity, his choice of words at the historic occasion of Faust’s inauguration was in bad taste and only served to further turn faculty and administrative opinion against the UC and its goals.Ultimately, the protracted fight between College and UC led to a lot of fuss and little progress, as the final agreement the two sides reached represented an almost complete capitulation to the College’s original demands. The outcome made one wonder what the UC was trying to accomplish by burning precious political capital in a bloody battle against a more or less...
...boring anyway. As city kids, we were used to these things—they actually made the night more exciting. So it seems strange—at least to one who put away her black cat costume about seven years ago—that there should be such a fuss this year over Halloween. Of course, the recent Tylenol poisonings cast a shade of gloom over just about any drugstore purchase. These days we reach for the aspirin with a sinking feeling that this might be the last one we take. But candy and capsules are different things. Caution...
...asked me to listen to his voice. He thought the therapy he was taking had roughened it. I listened to him, said I thought he sounded fine, and the next day he turned up in the studio - calm and professional - and did his usual superlative job - no fluffs, no fuss - achieving that unique blend of sympathy and authority I treasured. It was only when we chatted for a few minutes afterward that I detected in him an implicit acceptance that the chances of a good outcome in his case were not good. There was no melodrama or self-pity...