Word: tenoritis
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...Francisco Days, Isaak continues to refine a style that, despite a '90s shimmer, is steeped in the strum and twang of the lonesome-cowboy blues. Backed by spare, guitar-centered arrangements, Isaak's compositions convey the aching pang of emotion without ever sounding wimpy. On Beautiful Homes his rich tenor throbs with vulnerability as he sings, "I stare at your window and I cry/ I love you so much/ I love you too much." He brings equal ardor to Two Hearts, a Latin-tinged Valentine levitated by his soaring falsetto, and a stirring remake of Neil Diamond's Solitary...
Ring began the interviews in January by working from a prepared list of questions in an unmarked first floor superintendents' office in Cronkhite Graduate Center. But the queries soon changed tenor and tone...
Just as important is the tenor of the demonstration. Washington attorney Albert Lauber, a former Reagan Administration Justice Department official who is housing six out-of-town friends for the event, says, "This is a rally, not a parade." Gay leaders are reluctant to criticize anyone for exotic life- style -- the movement is, after all, centered on freedom to live as one wishes -- but they are queasy about the disproportionate media attention that might be paid to "dykes on bikes," bearded transvestites, men dressed as nuns and other proponents of life as street theater. Civil rights arguments are easier...
...general tenor at the Law School contributes to "everyone in society looking at lawyers as parasites," Koh said...
This presents the new Administration with a golden opportunity to change the tenor of the environmental debate. Clinton and Gore should take a page from Ross Perot's scare tactics on the deficit and use this fear. Sad to say, it is only when people become truly frightened (or angry) that the government has some hope of breaking the cycle of enacting feel-good laws that do little to halt environmental decline...