Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also reveals Tune's (or Sellars's, or Walsh's) flair. Tune and Twiggy dance on water, and a group of four elderly gentlemen occasionally appear singing an ironic refrain from an already performed song. The show must quicken and tighten its pace, though it should retain the gentle tone befitting Gershwin's consistently lovely music--the score includes "He Loves and She Loves," "How Long Has This Been Going On?" and "Kickin' the Clouds Away...
...hint of a fighting tone in McClean's words may reflect the Financial Times' decision to foray onto Dow Jones' U.S. turf: the paper is offering U.S. newspapers a weekly insert of international business coverage that made its debut Jan. 10 in the Houston Chronicle. Bigger efforts may follow. Says a Financial Times executive: "We are not printing a U.S. edition, but we should be. That is the logical next step...
Sting II does adapt from the original and central characters of the criminal hero. Jake Hooker (Mac Davis), and his has-been mentor, Fargo Gondorff (Jackie Gleason). The first gag sets the tone of the movie, when Hooker rushes down to visit Gondorff in what had been described as "a big house with a yard," but is actually a state prison, It never improves...
...into a mammoth grave, where they are to be shot. As the cameras started to roll, the peasants began to wail. "No one told them to," says Steele, "and you couldn't have dreamt of such a sound. It was just devastating, strange and keening, like the saddest tone in history. The Yugoslavs hate the Germans, and maybe something surfaced from a collective unconscious...
Naylor's straightforward tone defies the usual gimmickry to which the subjects she treats so readily lend themselves: out-of-wed-lock pregnancy, parental shame and a runaway's difficulties, single women just a step ahead of poverty, abandoned wife-mothers, young Blacks struggling through militancy in search of dignity, the stereotypical welfare case, homosexuality in mainstream society. But out of this parade of social issues come the same personal interactions with which everyone is too familiar. The women's particular situations are merely a fog obscuring people who, Naylor convinces the reader, are at bottom typical. Fleshed out, these...