Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Natalie Tirrell, a cool cerebral presence who is Galanos' top model, his "first girl," drifts in and out, showing clothes carefully calculated to meet each client's taste. "That dress is no good, you can't have it," the saleswoman commands, in the bantering tone habitual to women whose living is made by treating other women like rich babies. The department keeps clientele books, with histories of purchases and discreet information on husband's job, working habits, traveling time, ages of children and weekend homes. Thank-you notes are sent, inquiries made about "your darlin' son Marc...
...author of biographies of Lord Melbourne and Diana Cooper, offers a remarkably lively and human portrait. His research was authorized by the Mountbatten family, but in this case, he says, the term does not mean that the book was distorted to fit the demands of the survivors. Ziegler's tone is generally admiring but not adulatory, as when he compares Mountbatten with Douglas MacArthur, his fellow Supreme Commander in the Pacific during World War II. The two Supremos were equally and supremely vain, is Ziegler's assessment, but Mountbatten lacked MacArthur's cold arrogance and "was endearingly able to laugh...
...seen moods of penitence and humility from postwar Germany. Now it seems to be hearing from you a tone that is more aggressive and insistent on Germany's right to be accepted and forgiven...
...interests and no visible pedagogic doubts, Adler spun out Ten Philosophical Mistakes in 15 mornings of whirlwind writing. "Writing is the easy part," he explains. "It's the thinking beforehand that takes time." Many of Adler's 33 previous books were written just as quickly, and their titles and tone are no less imperative. A sampling: How to Think About War and Peace, Reforming Education, How to Read a Book, How to Think About...
...sniffing out and averting trouble than the first-term damage-control team of James Baker and Richard Darman, now the top men at Treasury. "Darman was very careful at keeping the President's rhetoric under control," says a high Administration official. The new staff, by contrast, favors a combative tone, and that tone has begun to backfire. White House Director of Communications Patrick Buchanan in particular has urged a confrontational style, and that approach has been accepted by Regan, who is not averse to confrontation himself. Said Regan after the contra vote: "We have an issue: Who is to blame...