Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiator, said last week, "The odds are probably fifty-fifty" that agreement can be reached during 1983. Reagan said his bargainers "feel that the Soviets are really negotiating in good earnest, so we're a little optimistic." Andropov, in writing to an American journalist, sounded a friendly tone and suggested a summit meeting with Reagan, an idea the U.S. treated warily...
...shot on location in Europe with English subtitles, slowly unfold the extent of that terror up to Sophie's final and tragic "choice," so that the viewer's reactions parallel Stingo's own. Longer than the conventional flashback, these sequences demonstrate Pakula's scrupulous care in reproducing Styron's tone. An actual concentration camp in Yugoslavia forms the background, and Meryl Streep as Sophie appears with near-shaven head, made up to look perceptibly younger and gabbling fluently in German and Polish...
...others wish, let them march in infinitely complex (but usually boring) formations. Let others continue to allow the one hundred odd musicians to languish on the field while someone on the PA system, in a nauseatingly self-satisfied tone of voice, makes what are supposedly 'cute' remarks but are in fact a series of solid lead balloons, so tiresome that soon no one listens at all. You have a great opportunity to revivify the whole scene and provoke once again the comment in the New Yorker 'the best in the business.' All it takes is two qualities supposedly often present...
...people who earn $50,000 a year or more. In one memorable commercial earlier this year, for instance, Lebenthal was seen holding paper cows made out of folded bond certificates. "We've been selling a cow that instead of milk gives money," he declares in his precise, didactic tone. "So put a little moola in your portfolio and get yourself a cash cow." The message is getting across. Lebenthal & Co.'s sales have been growing at about 20% a year and reached an estimated $400 million...
...however, he was unsurpassed. Vladimir Horowitz, 78, may have a flashier, more dazzling technique; Rudolf Serkin, 79, may have a more intense emotional identification with the German classics; Claudio Arrau, 79, may have an even wider repertoire. But Rubinstein had everything: in his playing, consummate virtuosity and a pellucid tone were at the service of a natural musical storyteller...