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...Boston Ballet usually offers enchanting and accomplished dance. Yet, while its current production starts out on a hopeful note with Gerald Arpino’s slight and appealing Suite Saint-Saëns, it is unable to sustain momentum through the headliner, Bruce Wells’ heavily anticipated A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Both shows are strongly choreographed and well-staged dramatically, but Midsummer ultimately disappoints due to an inexperienced cast of dancers unsuited to the material...
...ns and aims of these clubs were laudable in their own day, they have inherited a dubious legacy of snobbism and exclusion...
...NS It's the most overused word of the year. Yet for some reason--our brain circuitry's own Y2K bug perhaps--millennium is also the most shamelessly misspelled one. In 1999, newspaper and magazine editors in America and Britain omitted the second n a full 4,709 times. There's Elizabeth Arden's new Millenium Energist Revitalizing Emulsion; New York City's Millenium Hilton Hotel; and later this month, a New Year's Eve scene from the NBC movie Y2K, above. A concierge at the Millenium Hilton offers an explanation: "We did it to have originality--for the creativity...
Donald Trump scored 50 percent of the Big Apple's Empire State Building--without putting up any cash. In return for equity financing and the Donald's singular real estate expertise, NS America handed over halfthe shares for the famous building, which the company bought last October for $45 million. The move is rumored to have further inflamed the ongoing Trump-Helmsley rivalry, as Harry Helmsley currently runs the group representing the Empire State's leaseholders. Trump criticized the management of the building and promised to re-establish the landmark as a world-class real estate possession.parparparpar
Here's the choice. Come Dec. 31, 1999, you can sit around harrumphing that it's amateur night. That those out celebrating the millennium are no doubt the very same people who can't even spell it. (Two Ls, two Ns.) You can work yourself into a froth about how the calendar change promises only to render every check in your checkbook obsolete and produce a baby boomlet of Millies and Millards. As you down a glass of warm buttermilk before bed, you can note ! with satisfaction that the year is off to a bad start: ABC says Two Thousand...