Word: tone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onstage, and six at the top of the Loeb auditorium. "All right," says Havergal in a beautiful, melodious British accent that sounds just like every British accent ought to sound, "Now choose some lines of yours in the play, and let's hear you deliver them in the same tone to each other." While the five actors onstage proceed to do so, Havergal huddles with his group at the top and begins whispering excitedly. One catches snippets: "You see how it's working?.... Amazing!.... Smashing!.... it will take your sound and magnify it...resonant...
...Senators like Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) got a lot of mileage out of it, and even more moderate members--Dennis DeConcinni is the most recent example--raised objections. The result was a little friendly rhetoric to tone down DeConcinni's jingoistic clause about American military intervention. That and a lucky break or two saved the administration from a major foreign policy fiasco...
...bitter affair with her and becomes the boss's lieutenant). The clash of the two triangles nearly destroys all three of them, and makes possible the emergence of the movie's real theme, the relation between sexuality and power. "Gilda" is extremely similar in its tone and its themes to another favorite of mine, Orson Welles's "The Lady from Shanghai...
...Hamburg courtroom for "supporting a criminal organization" and furthering the plots of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, which has wreaked havoc in West Germany for a decade. As Groenewold nervously shuffles papers, his own lawyer politely debates procedural points with the prosecutors. No one shouts obscenities; the tone is orderly and low-key, punctuated only by an occasional muffled cheer from a handful of law students sitting in the audience on the other side of a bulletproof screen...
...bold or innovative. Indeed, parts of it merely repeat pledges and exhortations that the President made earlier. Alan Greenspan, who was Gerald Ford's chief economic adviser, commented bitingly: "If it had been the first time I heard the speech, I would judge it exceptionally good-right in tone, right in balance, voicing the type of general philosophy that I support. The problem is that I have heard it all before...