Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...child's mother has abandoned the custom of performing the binding herself because she lears her daughter's wrath puts the ironic icing on an already irony-laden cake. The story is funny, though sad, and its off-beat combination of ancient tradition and '80s morality sets the trendy tone that dominates the rest of the book...
Still, in undergraduates with aspirations outside the realm of Mammon will find it hard not to be a little discouraged by the tone that 'runs through Career Insights, in the most condescending way, executive after executive rationalizes about the value of a liberal arts education on their particular side of the boardroom, "A liberal arts background is important for developing good human management skills," writes one industry chairman. "This is what I call 'human' garment...
...scene and the hand making its marks -take a month or more to achieve. But the paint looks direct and uncluttered; it seems to have been done alla prima, wet into wet, in a few hours. In fact, it is very considered painting. Welliver's accuracy of tone is phenomenal; there are hardly any "holes" and tonally inert areas in his work. With a loaded, flouncing brush he can put in the blue rim of ice around the cold black water of a pond, or the melting rime on the flank of a snow hummock, so that the substance...
...hard to escape the feeling that there is more here than any real adolescent may ever have to deal with. But that is an afterthought. While the picture is running, its casual naturalism, its refusal to force any single incident to its dramatic or comic limits, its accuracy of tone, texture and pitch keep one persuaded and involved. For a studio that has been trying to regain its grip on contemporary reality, for audiences that must by this time be jaded by the noisy and moronic farcicality of adolescent life as most movies portray it, Tex may prove...
...Begin, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski were with me. We sat around a table in a small cottage named Holly. Everyone had read the Egyptian document. Begin was now excited and irate about the tone and substance of the document. "This smacks of a victorious state dictating peace to the defeated!" he said. "This document is not a proper basis for negotiations...