Word: notched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...200th birthday [AMERICAN SCENE, July 20]. Oh, how I wish that the start of sports events would feature a recording of the national anthem by this band, or the Army or Navy band--with no vocalist! Let the people sing along if they wish. A really top-notch performance inspires allegiance as nothing else can. But the way many singers and musicians today render the national anthem is an abomination. If I'm watching TV, I turn off the sound until the anthem is finished. DAVID M. BARTHOLOMEW Dundee...
Gardiner and his top-notch musicians perform two versions of Symphony No. 4, one from 1841 and the more familiar 1851 score. Both are wonderful in these performances, even if the 1851 version has sacrificed a little boldness for greater texture. The set also includes a dazzlingly virtuosic performance of Schumann's Konzertstuck for Four Horns and Orchestra (1849) and two "almost" symphonies: the promising, never completed "Zwickau" Symphony, composed in his youth, and the Overture, Scherzo and Finale (1841), with its passages of surprising delicacy and elfin fantasy...
...weather also means more disease. The World Health Organization is already reporting a jump in the number of malaria cases, not to mention cholera and the deadly hantavirus. All the more reason for Gore to ride the El Nino bandwagon -- and for you to turn the fan up another notch...
...summer schedule could actually be a very good thing. I won't have to readjust to the academic rigor; I will downshift a notch. I won't be worried about wasting my summer away; I will have enhanced my job prospects for next summer. I won't be worried about finances next year; I will be set. Hmmm. Momentum, resume-building and money. Maybe I'm not so insane after...
...father, now 75, hasn't had any cardiac problems at all. My total cholesterol is just a little high at 200. My only real risk factor is (deep sigh) age: a few months from now, I'll turn 45, which, the experts say, pushes the danger up a notch. But I can't do much about that...