Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fact Sheet" euphemistically refers to chemical weapons detoxification testing as "Chemical and Food Services Research." The fact sheet refers only to "hazardous chemicals," never mentioning nerve gases. Only at the end of the report, among its anticipated projects, does it mention chemical warfare agents. Continuing in the gourmand tone of its opening references, ADL reports its toxin measurements in "tablespoons" and as "1/3 cup," instead of simply coming straight out and telling the public that a few drops are lethal...
...Paul Kirk, who was elected National Committee Chairman last month, to unify the Democrats. Kirk has made no secret of his desire eventually to disband the caucuses on the National Committee. As a first step, he intends to sit down with the caucus leaders soon and urge them to tone down the particular demands of their groups...
...Director Malcolm) Mowbray's wish to direct a film about a pig." In fact, they have larger issues to lance. Although the film is set during Clement Attlee's Labor reign, it applies just as ferociously to Margaret Thatcher's pinchpenny Britain. With its double-edged title and its tone of bitter whimsy, A Private Function asks to be taken as a hymn to the meanness of the human spirit, in ) which the one decent soul is "a pathetic cringing nancy" to his wife and a "festering, bunion-scraping little pillock" to the local GP. The cheery camaraderie of Britain...
Britten's score is particularly responsive to the emotions that run through the core of James' story. We not only hear Miss Jessel verbally bemoaning her fate, but also the heavy constant tone of suffering in the music. Even more ambiguous feelings come through, such as the rather naive disbelief that characterizes the housekeeper Mrs Grose (Nan Hughes). Hughes portrays Mrs. Grose as a harried, trusting woman whose gentle nature cannot comprehend the horror that surrounds her. She is a striking example of the professionalism, both in singing and acting, that marks the entire cast of this opera...
...note I'm going to play." Husker Du, a trio on California's SST label, recorded a two-disk punk masterpiece in just 45 hours. Artists on small labels also go without such freebies as drinks and buffets, which have become staples at some music firms. Refreshments at Twin/ Tone Records in Minneapolis, for example, are limited to an occasional twelve- pack of beer...