Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women's Wear Daily and gossip columnists were thrilled by the self- consciously lavish example she set. Democratic Socialite Oatsie Charles, an arbiter of Washington taste, was pleased too. "The White House sets the tone for everything that goes on here," says Charles. "It was nice to know that she cared." But many newspaper editorialists and a large portion of the citizenry thought the extravagance unseemly. "She was one of the best single targets for the opposition's attacks about 'fairness' and special interests," says a White House strategist. Thin-skinned Nancy Reagan was wounded by the criticism, especially since...
Ideally, directing is an art of imagination and emphasis which brings the heart and meaning of a play to life on stage. The director must decide what the tone and message of the play are; since playwrights rarely carve this massage in agree it most be inferred from the text-from the characters, plot dissolved and stage direction. Thou the director emphasizes those criminals that make this moaning clear and powerful for the audience. The best directors may Incorporate fresh Mights from the texi. In the case of Endgante, Brokott's text implies that the action occurs after a nuclear...
Although this protection leaves authors at the mercy of both actors and directors, the directors pace the biggest danger because, by changing the setting, pace and tone, they can disguise the very nature of the play. In the playwright's mind, there is a point, undoubtedly difficult to define, at which such changes over to be direction and become perversion...
...bureau chief for seven years, spent an intensive week with Ueberroth, accompanying him to his baseball commissioner's office, to several dinners, even on a Ueberroth search for a New York City apartment. Says Ajemian: "He has a swift, shrewd mind that picks up subtleties of conversation, nuances of tone of voice. He is a remarkable observer...
MIAMI VICE (NBC). Unlike most of the season's new shows, this hard-nosed police series has actually improved since its pilot. The first network series since Hill Street Blues to establish a unique look and tone: an alluring mix of cinema verite grit and rock-video glitz...