Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican: "I wish he had spent more time on the deficit." Of course, Dole conceded, "when you have something that you're not proud of, you don't raise it as the centerpiece of your speech." Democratic House Speaker O'Neill jabbed harder still. With such an upbeat tone, Reagan was "not being honest with the American public," he said. The speech, added the 72-year-old O'Neill, counted for little more than the musings of "a kindly...
Possibly this tone of civilized irreconcilability stems from a feeling on the part of Australian Director Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli) that he was himself a stranger in a curious corner of a strange land. But for whatever reasons, the distinguishing marks of Witness are its refusals. Book may help with a barn raising, and win respect for his carpentry, but that does not make him anyone's new best friend. Rachel may dance with him to a tune they hear on his forbidden car radio, or finally embrace him hungrily, but that does not mean that they...
...from N.F.L. coaches, including Tom Landry and Don Shula, to explain basic concepts that are rarely covered by Sunday-afternoon color commentators. One of the most ambitious cassettes is Strong Kids, Safe Kids, in which Host Winkler guides parents and children through a discussion of sexual abuse. If the tone seems somewhat alarmist, the mix of interviews, songs and animated segments brings the message home with sensitivity and skill...
Lampoon editors from the early 60's speak of a definite shift in tone of the magazine...
...renounced Julia and himself, he sits alone and scrawls "2 plus 2 equals" in the dust of a café tabletop. The purpose of this open-ended conclusion is a mystyery only God and Bergman, but certainly not Radford, can solve. Not only does it break the emotional tone of the film and make the viewer think, but it leaves the viewer with half-developed food for thought. A far more appropriate ending would have been Orwell's final gunshot, the final chord in a symphony of destruction and despair, which would have kept alive the pathos that otherwise invigortates...