Word: nos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...initial comp information, the Lampoon listed some humor "no-nos." Jokes about politics, Union food, Derek Bok, roommates, and violent death are banned. All of these appear in some form in the Gargoyle...
...previous day, Indian meteorologists had alerted the Bangladesh government in Dhaka that a killer storm was sweeping toward the country's myriad offshore islets and southern flatlands along the Bay of Bengal. Danger Signals Nos. 4 and 5, warning of winds racing above 50 m.p.h., had been hoisted in the port of Chittagong, and fishermen and other sailors had been urged to stay close to the shore. Hourly warnings were broadcast on state-run radio and television, advising residents in the imperiled areas to seek shelter instantly. But most of the impoverished squatters who crowd the islets are too poor...
Reagan did not shy from the task. Indeed, he seemed to relish delivering the message. His greatest test, however, lies ahead. If his tax reform bill is any kind of true reform, it will be a chorus of nos for dozens, perhaps hundreds of entrenched special interests, few of whom are accustomed to the word...
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 13 in C Major, K. 415, and 15 in B-Flat Major, K. 450. Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano, with John Eliot Gardiner conducting the English Baroque Soloists; Archiv. Having started with the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the original-instruments movement has now worked its way through the baroque to classicism and early romanticism in an effort to discover what the music of these eras sounded like to the people of the time. Bilson is a leading exponent of the fortepiano, the gentler forerunner of the modern piano; together with Conductor Gardiner, he makes...
...stayed together by corseting all hostilities. Then she discovers the power of her own erotic impulse. Overnight, Daddy's little girl is a slut in Mama's eyes, and the family falls into convulsions of jealousy and hatred. Like the off-Hollywood films of John Cassavetes, A Nos Amours is less drama than psychodrama; it wears its artlessness as a badge of intrepid truth-telling. Bonnaire's artlessness though, marks her as an exotic found object and a genuine movie find...