Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience's initial reactions to Burton (who looks graceful and distinguished in a tuxedo, though his shoe-heels are about three inches too high for the 1930s of Private Lives) and Taylor, who enters confidently in a low-cut nightgown and robe. But, in keeping with the tone of the evening. Taylor soon changes into a Theoni Aldredge purple sequined gown that, were the actors not a hundred feet away, would undoubtedly become her violet eyes...
...road, Mondale stuck to his forceful tone. Standing in front of a group of Democratic activists last February in Nashua, N.H., he attacked Reagan as an uncaring leader. His voice strong, his hand chopping the air, he told of homeless people roaming the country for work, as many as 3,800 people in one city lining up for 80 jobs. "It's like something out of The Grapes of Wrath," he said. As he moved from town to town, his mastery of Government was palpable. He spoke of world leaders he had met, of knowing where the country...
...Hart and two MIT professors discussed President Reagan's recent arms control proposals for about two hours. In a question and answer period, one woman asked the candidate to "tell us about yourself, tell us why we as delegates should vote for you." The senator replied in a tone equivalent to the solemnity of the seminar, "Let's not stray from the topic. Believe it or not, this is not a Hart for President event I don't want to detract from the speakers...
Farrell set the tone for the day with a three-run shot over the scoreboard in the first inning of the opener. "That was the best home run I ever hit," said Farrell, who has hit quite...
...effect, Donaldson is the television equivalent of the hard-sell tabloid newspaper. He appears more interested in emotion, in the fates of careers and in the flow of power than in the substance of Government. He gives an apocalyptic tone to even humdrum stories: after two of Reagan's Cabinet aides resigned in January to take lucrative jobs in industry, Donaldson intoned that Reagan was "the only President in modern times to lose four Cabinet members in less than two years." He ended a report about a less than climactic presidential press conference with the hyperbolic warning that Reagan...