Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least, will come a fresh reading on the high-stakes state of relations between the superpowers, which have sunk to their lowest point in two decades. The meeting could also show some signs of diplomatic movement, perhaps even a breakthrough agreement of some sort. Finally, it could set the tone for U.S.-Soviet diplomacy in a second Reagan Administration...
...Senator and Vice President he had three discussions with Gromyko. The Soviet Foreign Minister, who in all probability viewed his meeting with Mondale mainly as a courtesy gesture, was unlikely to offer anything not already passed on to Shultz. By mutual consent, no communiqué describing either the tone or the content of the meeting was planned...
...wording of the letter was so extreme and derogatory to women that I wanted to communicate my disapproval publicly, if only to make sure that no one could gain the false impression that the Harvard administration harbored any sympathy or complacency toward the tone and substance of the letter. Such action does not infringe on free speech. Indeed, statements of disagreement are part and parcel of the open debate that freedom of speech is meant to encourage; the right to condemn a point of view is protected by the right to express it. Of course, I recognize that even verbal...
...cases are rapidly being replaced by Latin American protagonists and European figures who have a fresher story to tell. Detrez is still an unfinished writer, and he lacks the craft and polish of his great predecessor. But he has a sense of the appropriate image and the right valedictory tone...
Actors love to appear in this kind of play, whether it is a tattered valentine to eccentricity like The Time of Your Life or a dopers' tone poem like The Connection or this dated, indifferent travelogue through the seventh circle of hell. An actor can both inhabit his character and stand outside it, flashing signals to the audience that say, "I'm not really this lowlife, but it's fun to pretend." Perhaps that is why the audience at off-Broadway's spacious new Minetta Lane Theater, where Balm moved last week after a successful...