Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Winter's Tale, with which the AST completes this summer's repertory, has often been scored for its anachronisms and factual slips. Shakespeare set the play in the times of ancient Greece, yet its tone is clearly Christian, including even a reference to Whitsunday. Hermione claims her father was Emperor of Russia, when there was then no such thing. A famous 16th-century Italian sculptor is cited by name. Shakespeare confused the oracle of Apollo at Delphi with the one on the island of Deios, and provided Bohemia with a seacoast it has never enjoyed. On top of that...
Prenatal Work. Brooks' tone is usually foxy and sardonic, but his technique varies according to where and how he is working. He will shape his material specifically for a medium the way a stand-up comedian will tailor a monologue to suit an individual audience. Making a guest appearance on a TV variety show, Brooks will contrive a bit like Dave the ventriloquist that will capitalize on the occasion and parody it at the same time. Says his friend Director Steven Spielberg (Jaws): "Albert is not only the funniest but the most visual humorist working today...
...book consists of a string of reflections on friendship, privacy, celebrity, sex (which Andy thinks is work) and how to run an art business. The same tone of grayout pervades every remark. For example: "I really like to eat alone. I want to start a chain of restaurants for other people who are like me called Andy-Mats-The Restaurant for the Lonely Person. You get your food and then you take your tray into a booth and watch television...
...Elvis Presley, Warhol's earlier subjects. Moreover, the peacock colors in which Warhol packaged Mao's face had all the lushness that one associates with the most edible commercial art. The whole enterprise was about as subversive as a department-store window display, and it set the tone for the rest of Warhol's output...
...stood for hours under the blazing midsummer sun outside the blackened ruins of the presidential palace in Nicosia. Greek Cypriots-old women in black, stalwart white-haired peasants, city people of all classes and ages-had gathered to hear their President, Archbishop Makarios. With theatrical gestures and a tone of moral outrage, he denounced the coup attempt by Greek extremists that a year ago had led directly to the Turkish occupation of almost half of the island and the shattering of the then quiescent Mediterranean tourist paradise...