Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poetry" here and there. Faced with the need to make lines like "Can you not re-weld the link you tore asunder?" and "Am I to hallmark your complacency?" sound natural, director Holly Swartz takes the logical strategy of stylizing the actors' motion and delivery to match the tone. This works in spots, but it cannot keep things moving for two and a half hours. The weight of verbiage is simply too great...
...tone for the Midwest stop was set en route from the West Coast. As champagne was being poured in the galley, the French contingent's well-meaning but far-from-fluent American stewardess announced that "champignon " would soon be served. Her passengers whooped with ungallant laughter. In Gaylesburg, Ill., to tour Secretary of Agriculture John Block's 3,000-acre farm, Mitterrand donned rubber boots, a farmer's cap and a sky-blue jacket with MR. PRESIDENT stitched over the heart. He and Block disagreed about American exports undercutting European Community farmers, but Mitterrand lightened the mood...
...such a small problem as these few rocky islands." Galtieri complained that people in the American embassy were asking for visas to go to Uruguay; this made Argentina look like Iran instead of a civilized Christian nation. "You must seek a peaceful solution," he said in a tone of urgent appeal. Then he suggested I meet with the full junta...
...told us nothing of their military plans, the Argentines plainly believed that we knew everything the British did. Possibly this misconception could be useful. I called Bill Clark at the White House on an open line, knowing that the Argentinians would monitor the call, and told him in a tone of confidentiality that British military action was imminent...
...bill of particulars, listing the occasions on which the cacophony of voices from the Administration and the seeming incoherence of American foreign policy had created dangerous uncertainties. To this I had added a second memorandum, detailing mixed signals during the Falklands crisis. These documents, though more forthright hi tone than communications to Presidents usually are, had the virtue of being an accurate reflection of the frustrations produced by these events. Reagan glanced at the papers. "I'm going to keep this, Al," he said. "This situation is very disturbing...